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Webinar: Is big bet philanthropy capable of scaling food systems transformation?

Webinar hosted by IFAD and the Global Alliance as part of Innovation Talks 2024

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Poster event for webinar with IFAD 2024

Date: 04 September 2024
Time: 12:00 – 13:00 Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)
Location: Online
**Watch the recording here**

Hosted by the Global Alliance and International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), this IFAD Innovation Talk will explore innovations and strategies to transform global food systems and delve into how philanthropic partnerships and investments can be mobilized for systems change.

Leading representatives from foundations and philanthropic organizations will discuss how they are using these strategies to better leverage resources and focus on proven results to end hunger, achieve food security and ensure climate resilience.

The event will aim to answer the following questions:
  • Can philanthropy live up to the challenge of increasing and shifting financing for food systems? What are the challenges and/or opportunities?
  • How can a shift in partnership and investment modalities innovate philanthropic practices that lead to the transformation of food systems?
  • How can philanthropy complement traditional efforts to help countries in the financing of their food systems investment strategies?
Speakers include:
  • Tonya Allen, President, McKnight Foundation
  • Ron Thomas Hartman, Director, Global Engagement, Partnership and Resource Mobilization, IFAD
  • Anna Lappé, Executive Director, Global Alliance for the Future of Food
  • Alvaro Lario, President, IFAD
  • Masego Madzwamuse, Director of the Environment Programme, Oak Foundation
  • Sonia Medina, Chief Ecosystem Development Officer & Executive Director, Climate Change, Children’s Investment Fund Foundation
  • Gladys H. Morales, Global Head of Innovation, IFAD.
Watch the recording here.