Breaking the Cycle of Food Crises: Exploring the Financing Landscape

Breaking the Cycle of Food Crises: Exploring the Financing Landscape

This Webinar, hosted by the Hungry for Action and Oxfam, which took place ahead of the 2024 World Bank and IMF Spring Meetings, featured a discussion between food systems experts on the opportunities available to mobilise financing to tackle the global food crisis and drive progress towards SDG2 and climate goals. The panel of experts delved into financing priorities including multilateral development bank reforms, debt relief, and the opportunity of the forthcoming IDA Replenishment. Panelists Neema Lugangira, Member of Parliament Tanzania and Board Member of the Parliamentary Network on the World Bank and IMF Sessi Akoha, Agricultural Economist and MEAL expert at the West African Network of Peasants and Agricultural Producers (ROPPA) Zacharey Carmichael, Senior Economist, World Bank Agriculture and Food Global Practice, World Bank CRW ERF Technical Coordinator for Food Security Crises and Global Alliance for Food Security (GAFS) Secretariat Friederike Roder, Vice President, Global Policy and Advocacy, Global Citizen Find out more about the event here: https://sdg2advocacyhub.org/latest/breaking-food-crises-cycle-mobilizing-financing-at-scale/