Theme: Agriculture, nutrition and food security

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Investing in Resilience: Project Portfolio 2024

Project Portfolio featuring eight projects that presented during the 2024 Investor Forum at Climate Week NYC on 23 September 2024.

Investor Forum 2024: Locally driven projects with real-world impact

At Climate Week NYC, a group of innovators pitched their projects to prospective funders and partners. These locally-driven solutions, addressing everything from sustainable agriculture to resilient infrastructure, showcased the power of small-scale initiatives to drive global impact.

Community-Based Organisations’ impact: Why partnering with CBOs is crucial for sustainable agriculture

In this blog, Ashley Mutiso, Co-founder of Itanya Africa Group, a RAIN Challenge winner, details training sessions with local farmers, where they shared sustainable agricultural practices and learned from the farmers' expertise.

Meet the RAIN Round 2 Shortlisted Candidates 

23 seed-level initiatives have been selected as part of RAIN Challenge Round 2 and over the next several months will work in collaboration with GRP to receive tailored mentoring and leadership training. 

Advancing equity through food systems transformations

The Seeding equity in African food systems SARA working group shares their insights from a collaborative dialogue between development organisations and funding partners.

Food insecurity and climate change swings young creatives into action

Knowledge Into Use award winner, Nobel Arts Entertainment works with young people in Cameroon on how to use arts to come up with solutions to issues like climate change, food insecurity, and conflict.

Webinar: Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) 2024

Join us for this webinar on 22 January to learn more about the RAIN challenge.

Bridging the gap: Strengthening urban food system in Zambia through resilience initiatives

Delve into an array of outputs from a cartoons to policy notes that aim to address the complex challenges within urban food systems in the region.

Nine projects spearheading nature-positive agricultural innovations

Together with Munich Re Foundation and Shockwave Foundation, we are pleased to announce the nine winning projects as part of the first round of the Resilient Agriculture Innovations for Nature (RAIN) Challenge.