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Accelerating Food Systems Resilience: GAFSP Launches a New Call for Proposals
On October 13th, GAFSP officially launched the 2022 Call for Proposals at the IMF-WBG Annual Meetings.
Transforming Food Systems: Investing in Producer Organizations, Innovative Approaches to Support Smallholder Farmers
This event will highlight the importance and the advantage of investing in producer organizations to enable their members to become their own change agents, enabling them to make effective decisions about their businesses and improve their livelihoods.
Twitter Chat: Empowering Women Farmers for a Sustainable Future for All
Women play a central role in agriculture and food systems, yet they remain more at risk of being food insecure than men. Hosted by ActionAid USA and GAFSP, this Twitter Chat will highlight that women's empowerment is critical to creating and maintaining a sustainable future for all.
Prioritizing Climate Resilience: Building a New Policy Consensus with Smallholder Farmers
GAFSP and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub co-hosted a virtual side event, Prioritizing Climate Resilience: Building a New Policy Consensus with Smallholder Farmers, at the Committee on World Food Security (CFS 49). Watch the recording, hear from the speakers and explore the highlights of the event.
Panel Discussion: Partnering with Women Farmers is a Smart Business Decision
This exciting panel discussion highlights examples of gender smart solutions that are successfully creating inclusive agricultural value chains across Africa.
Financing for Food Security: Smallholder Priorities in the Global Effort to End Hunger
As part of the UN Food Systems Summit Pre-Summit, this affiliated event will bring together smallholder farmers, country representatives, and other partners to speak to their experiences in accessing financing through programs such as GAFSP.
Financing Food Systems Recovery: Scaling Up Research and Innovation
This event will present CGIAR’s Food System response to COVID-19 as well as promote GAFSP's Call for Proposals to support countries and producer organizations’ recovery and response to COVID-19 challenges.
Twitter Chat: Promoting Gender Equality in Food Systems and Nutrition
Hosted by GAFSP, CFS, and UN Nutrition (tbc), this Twitter Chat highlights the vital role of women to ensure nutritious food for all, and the significance of the CFS Voluntary Guidelines on Food Systems and Nutrition in promoting women’s rights in the context of food security and nutrition.
Knowledge Forum 2021
Every two years, GAFSP organizes a Knowledge Forum to bring together project teams from across all Supervising Entities to share and learn more about topics that are relevant to them. Given current circumstances, the 2021 Knowledge Forum will take place virtually, with learning sessions held throughout April-September.
Partnering to Transform Food Systems Globally
GAFSP launched its replenishment period 2020-25 to raise US$1.5 billion over five years (2020-25) at a virtual event. At the event –which was hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ)– donors pledged over US$300 million in new funding to the Program, meeting the yearly target for 2020.
Twitter Chat: Overcoming, Together
Good food starts with farmers. Only with strong partnerships and multi-stakeholder collaboration are smallholder farmers able to produce good food for people and the planet. Hosted by GAFSP, SDG2 Advocacy Hub, and UNFSS, this Twitter Chat highlights the vital role of smallholder farmers in delivering sustainable and nutritious food for all by providing a platform for stakeholders to discuss ways of working to ensure that food systems drive progress on the SDGs.
Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP): Partnerships in Action
Empowering Smallholder Farmers