IFPRI is pleased to participate in the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FFD4). This conference provides a unique opportunity to reform financing at all levels, including to support reform of the international financial architecture and addressing financing challenges preventing the urgently needed investment push for the SDGs. FFD4 Conference will be held in FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre from June 30 to July 3, 2025.

Side Event: Prioritizing Financing for Food System Transformation: Options and Trade-offs

July 1, 2025 | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm (Europe/Madrid)

Transforming global food systems to become more sustainable, resilient, nutritious, and equitable requires a fundamental reorientation of financial policy and investment priorities, particularly in the context of growing fiscal constraints and environmental pressures. This high-level side event, convened by CGIAR and IFPRI, will examine policy and funding pathways for aligning public and private capital with food systems transformation in low- and middle-income countries.

The session will open with the presentation of new CGIAR research that offers a decision-making framework to guide strategic investment in science, innovation, and institutional capacity and market incentives needed to induce farmers and food sector operators to adopt improved sustainable technologies and practices. It will then turn to an evidence-based policy discussion on how to (a) create new incentive structures to reallocate existing finance, including through the repurposing of existing public support to agriculture, and, (b) leverage new, alternative financing instruments, such as blended finance mechanisms, incentives for de-risking finance, green bonds, and private value-chain finance, aiming to provide adequate finance for sustainable agrifood system transformation.

IFPRI Participants

• Johan Swinnen, Director General, IFPRI
• Clemens Breisinger, Senior Research Fellow, IFPRI; Interim Director, Policy Innovations Science Program
• James Thurlow, Director, Foresight and Policy Modeling (FPM), IFPRI; CGIAR Policy Innovations Program
• Ruth Hill, Director, Markets, Trade, and Institutions, IFPRI; CGIAR Policy Innovations Program

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