Upcoming Events
Date: June 30, 2026 | 11:30 AM – 1:20 PM CET | Location: Online Webinar (bilingual FR/EN with simultaneous interpretation)
ATLAS, in partnership with Fondation FARM and AKADEMIYA2063, is hosting a bilingual webinar on public support and agricultural financing in Africa — and the levers available to accompany transitions in a constrained fiscal environment.
As budgetary margins tighten, debt servicing burdens grow, some forms of international aid recede, and competing public priorities multiply, the question is no longer simply how to measure support to agriculture — but how to preserve it, redirect it, and finance it sustainably.
The session will bring into dialogue three complementary bodies of evidence and expertise: the findings of FARM’s Global Observatory of Public Support to Agriculture, the priorities of the CAADP Kampala Agenda 2026–2035, and current agricultural financing dynamics as tracked through the ATLAS Investment Barometer.
Recent Events
Date: June 4–5, 2026 | Location: UM6P Campus, Salé/Rabat, Morocco
The ATLAS Mava Working Forum and the Paris Peace Forum Spring Meeting brought together global leaders, investors, researchers, and civil society actors on the UM6P Campus in Rabat for two days of working sessions and high-level dialogue on resilient transitions — held under the French G7 Presidency, in partnership with OCP Group and with the support of UM6P – University Mohammed VI Polytechnic.
June 4th was dedicated to the ATLAS Mava Working Forum — a full day of focused, action-oriented sessions on African agrifood systems:
🌾 AgriConnect: Scaling Private Sector-led Development through Partnership and Capital Mobilization — bringing together the World Bank Group, OCP Africa, AGRA, IFC, BCG, GAIN, PULA, Danone Ecosystem, Enabel and others to examine how public and private capital can be mobilized at scale for country-led agricultural transformation.
🔬 Innovation in African Agriculture: From Ecosystems to Scale — exploring how to move from promising innovation ecosystems to models that can be replicated and scaled across the continent.
🥗 Nutrition and Sustainable Agriculture: Soil-to-Health Pathways — examining the links between agricultural practices, diet quality, and long-term health outcomes, building on the momentum from the One Health Summit.
On June 5th, ATLAS contributed to the Spring Meeting’s high-level plenary, where African agricultural sovereignty and structural transformation were discussed as central — not peripheral — dimensions of global resilience in a world shaped by geopolitical fragmentation, climate shocks, and shrinking development finance.
The Spring Meeting also marked the official launch of the ATLAS Investment Barometer 2026, the second edition of ATLAS’s flagship tracking tool developed in partnership with OCP Group and Boston Consulting Group, revealing that total agricultural investment in Africa reached $48Bn in 2024 — still 42% short of the $100Bn 2030 target.
Key takeaways from the ATLAS Mava Working Forum sessions will be available soon.
Date: April 8, 2026 | 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM CET | Location: Online Webinar
ATLAS, in partnership with the Shamba Centre for Food & Climate, CABI, FAO, the Gates Foundation, BMZ, SDG2 Advocacy Hub, Hesat2030, and the Zero Hunger Coalition, convened a session on the sidelines of the One Health Summit to explore how nutrition-sensitive food systems can serve as a foundation for ending hunger sustainably.
The session officially launched the Hesat2030 report — Ending Hunger Nutritiously: What Are the Priorities and How Much Would It Cost? — a landmark evidence synthesis drawing on 1,832 studies across 83 countries, identifying the ten most effective interventions to improve diet quality in low- and lower-middle-income countries.
Nutrition and food security are inseparable. Yet food systems have long prioritized caloric availability over diet quality — with growing consequences for public health, environmental sustainability, and equity. Today, one in three people worldwide is affected by some form of malnutrition, and the world remains off track to end hunger by 2030. Addressing this requires moving beyond single-sector solutions, toward strategic, costed bundles of interventions across agrifood production, markets, and consumption — with measurable co-benefits for incomes, climate resilience, and planetary health.
Key takeaways of the session
Date: March 24, 2026 | 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM CET/3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CAT | Location: Online Webinar
Atlas and Convergence invite you to join this webinar exploring how credit guarantees are being used within blended finance structures to de-risk agricultural investments and mobilize private capital. The session will highlight practical use cases, key design considerations, and the role of public and development actors in making agricultural finance more bankable.
Credit guarantees are a powerful tool for unlocking finance in the agriculture sector. They can lower and/or transfer risk and improve bankability. This is especially relevant in the context of Africa where the sector is chronically under financed despite employing ~70% of the continent’s workforce.
Key takeaways of the session
Past Events
Roundtable | Solution Pathways to Scale Sustainable Agriculture in Africa 8th Edition of the Paris Peace Forum Date: October 30, 2025 | Location: Musée de l’Homme, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris
Policy framing brief + key takeawaysHigh-level Panel | Food Security in Turbulent Times: Trade, Sovereignty, and the Global Supply Squeeze
8th Edition of the Paris Peace Forum
Date: October 29, 2025 | Location: Musée de l’Homme, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris
Side event | Broadening Access to Sustainable Agricultural Practices: Scaling Innovation through South-South Cooperation
8th Edition of the Paris Peace Forum
Date: October 28, 2025 | Location: UM6P Global Hubs France, 19 Rue de l’Amiral Hamelin, 75116 Paris
Roundtable | Scaling Blended Finance for Africa’s Afri-Food Systems Transformation
New York Climate Week
Date: September 25, 2025 | Location: BCG Office, 10 Hudson Yards, New York, NY 10001
Empowering African farmers through a shared vision for sustainable agriculture and customized support
African Food Systems Forum
Date: September 2, 2025 | Location: Dakar (Sénégal)
Private Capital at the Table: Financing the Future of African Food Systems
African Food Systems Forum
Date: September 2, 2025 | Location: Dakar (Sénégal)
Catalyzing Finance for Agrifood Systems in Africa
4th International Conference on Financing for Development
Date: July 1, 2025 | Location: FIBES Sevilla Exhibition and Conference Centre
Paris Peace Forum - 8th Edition
Implementing Africa’s Agricultural Transformation for Food and Climate Security
Date: June 3, 2025 | Location: Palais des Congrès, Marrakech, Morocco, Room Karam
Funding Africa’s Agricultural Transformation
Date: April 27, 2025 | Location: University Mohammed VI Polytechnic (UM6P) Campus, Benguerir, Morocco
Unlocking Development Finance to Transition African Agri-food systems
Date: February 26, 2025 | Location: Foyer Auditorium 1 (Level 1 of the Cape Town International Convention Centre 1)
ATLAS x World Economic Forum 2025 in Davos
Paris Peace Forum - 7th Edition
11 November Panel: Unlocking African Agriculture
ATLAS was proud to co-organise a pivotal side event at the 52nd Plenary Session of the Committee on World Food Security (CFS) in Rome, titled “The International Financial Architecture – Improving Collaboration and Scale to Bridge the Funding Gap for Sustainable Food Systems and Family Farmers.”
The event brought together key voices from organizations including the World Bank, IFAD, and the Africa-Europe Foundation to discuss how innovative financing models, strategic partnerships, and enhanced data collection can address critical funding gaps, especially for smallholder farmers in Africa.
A highlight of the discussion was the upcoming launch of the Global Alliance Against Hunger and Poverty at the G20 Summit, emphasizing political will and coordinated financial resources to combat hunger. The panel also showcased cutting-edge tools like IFAD’s 3FS, designed to track financial commitments, and new initiatives in agritech and fintech that aim to provide small farmers better access to finance and data-driven solutions.
ATLAS remains dedicated to advancing these efforts through collaboration, ensuring the sustainable development of food systems globally.
This side event was co-organized by ECDPM 🌍, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), Eastern Africa Farmers Federation (EAFF), Brazil🇧🇷, The World Bank, Paris Peace Forum, AGRA, the Africa-Europe Foundation , UM6P – University Mohammed VI Polytechnic, World Rural Forum, and the IUCN
The launch of Atlas, Paris Peace Forum Spring Meeting 2024