FAO Investment Centre’s 2024 Annual Review 

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Investing in agrifood systems changes lives – lifting people out of poverty and hunger, connecting small-scale farmers and rural entrepreneurs to markets and financing, protecting vital ecosystems and biodiversity, and much more.

For six decades and counting, the FAO Investment Centre has worked with countries and financiers to invest in food and agriculture for a more food-secure, resilient and sustainable future for all.   

At a glance in 2024, the Centre:  

  • Helped design 51 projects in 36 countries approved by financing partners for USD 7.3 billion in new public investment.  
  • Contributed to 48 agricultural strategies, 33 sector studies, 21 policy studies and 5 policy dialogues in 92 countries.  
  • Provided technical and advisory support on private and blended finance to unlock sustainable agrifood investment. 
  • Published new studies and expanded its network of financing and knowledge partners  

Read more about these and other achievements in this 2024 edition of the FAO Investment Centre’s Annual Review.  

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2026 AADFI Annual General Assembly

The Association of African Development Finance Institutions (AADFI) is pleased to announce that its 2026 Annual General Assembly will take place from May 24 to 29, 2026, in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, on the sidelines of the African Development Bank (AfDB) Annual Meetings.

The Annual General Assembly will be held on the theme “Augmenting Sovereign Finance in Africa: DFIs Unlocking Growth and Resilience through NAFA,” with a focus on the transformative role of African Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) in strengthening Africa’s financial sovereignty. The discussions will align with the AfDB-led New African Financial Architecture (NAFA), a system-level framework designed to mobilize long-term investment, reduce Africa’s cost of capital, and reinforce resilience through coordinated financial systems and deeper domestic capital markets.

The Annual General Assembly will convene leaders of African DFIs, government officials, regional institutions, and development partners to further explore how African DFIs can catalyze local investment, de-risk strategic projects, and strengthen economic autonomy to build resilience against global shocks and bridge the continent’s infrastructure funding gap.

Further details will be shared in the coming weeks.

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