A conversation with Corinna Hawkes (Director, Agrifood Systems and Food Safety Division, FAO) and Jim Woodhill (Senior Advisor, GDPRD)

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A conversation with Corinna Hawkes (Director, Agrifood Systems and Food Safety Division, FAO) and Jim Woodhill (Senior Advisor, GDPRD)

Join GDPRD's Jim Woodhill and FAO's Corinna Hawkes for a timely conversation on the importance of adopting a systems approach to agrifood finance in an era of constrained resources, and its potential to help donors and investors align limited financing to catalyse real, system-wide change.

Finance and investment play a critical role in driving the shift from fragmentation toward unlocking and maximizing long-term impact. This conversation will focus on how we can think, work and act differently to embed a systems approach into finance and investment for agrifood systems transformation – exploring elements such as flexibility and the catalytic potential of (public) financing, leveraging entry points, and creating financial incentives for system-wide action and alignment.

The discussion will be informed by two key references:

The FAO report “Transforming Food and Agriculture through a Systems Approach”
The GDPRD White Paper "Financing Agrifood Systems for People, Planet and Prosperity”