Webinar – Morning session | Public Development Banks as Catalysts for Food Systems Transformation: Opportunities under the Food Systems Integrated Programme

The Agri-PDB Platform and the IFAD Food Systems Integrated Programme (FSIP) organised a webinar to present the FSIP and highlight the role that agricultural public development banks (PDBs) can play in the design and implementation of food systems transformation initiatives. Drawing on experiences from the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA), the webinar explored how PDBs can mobilise and deploy different forms of finance, de-risk investments, support policy implementation, and bring together public and private actors to scale sustainable and inclusive food systems investments.