HIGH-LEVEL FOOD SYSTEMS EVENT: Report presentation: Jim Woodhill, Tristan Armstrong and Conrad Rein
Channel: Global Donor Platform for Rural Development
Date: 23/09/2021

Launch of the GDPRD stocktaking report:

Moderator: Henry Bonsu
Presentation by Jim Woodhill, AgriFoodNexus Consulting
Tristan Armstrong and Conrad Rein, Co-chairs of the GDPRD

THURSDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2021
12:30–15:00 (CEST – Rome, Paris & Brussels)

Donors play a key role in supporting initiatives that form the foundation for collaborative efforts across food systems through their innovations, programming and investments. This independent Food Systems event of the GDPRD is a contribution to ensure donors and their partners collaborate to realize the full leveraging potential of donor funding.

Optimizing the catalytic and leveraging potential of donor support will be key in responding to the outcomes of the FSS. Donor investments in food systems are relatively small compared to the investments of farmers, food sector businesses and national governments, but they are crucial for enabling and incentivizing other actors to play their part.

Event objectives:

•  Highlight key elements of donor perspectives on the food systems agenda in response to the UN FSS.
•  Discuss and seek agreement on the key priorities for future donor focus.
•  Discuss some of the most effective modalities for donor coordination going forward.

The event also launched the GDPRD Stocktaking report on “Donors contribution to food systems”, a mapping of the patterns and scale of food systems-related funding and an assessment of the extent donors are embracing a food system framing and aligning their investments to the UN FSS Action Tracks.

Please consult our HLF Event page https://www.donorplatform.org/event-detail-general/high-level-food-systems-event-leveraging-change-the-role-of-donors-in-food-systems-transformation.html for further information.