Published by the GFFN’s Metrics Catalyst Group, this brief outlines the crucial role of nature metrics in the world of finance, specifically for assessing the impacts and dependencies of food systems on nature.
Yearly Archives: 2023
Transforming Agrifood Systems Amidst the Climate Crisis: A Diversity of Solutions for People, Planet, and Prosperity
The report aims to inform, enable, and mobilize a broad spectrum of policymakers, private asset managers and owners, and corporate leaders through a journey that leads towards agrifood systems transformation with equitable health, climate, and financial benefits for all.
Financing the good food transformation to promote fiscal resilience, addressing food security, human and planetary health
This research compiles compelling evidence of the fiscal burden on governments from unhealthy food systems. Inaction threatens stability through inflation, food insecurity, degraded land, and climate impacts. However, strategic public financing and innovative collaborative investment models can fund a just transition that benefits all.
The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2023
This annual FAO report provides an update on global progress towards the targets of ending hunger (SDG Target 2.1) and all forms of malnutrition (SDG Target 2.2) and estimates on the number of people who are unable to afford a healthy diet.
Integrating a human rights-based approach in European development finance institutions
This paper aims to outline human rights-based approaches for IFIs and DFIs, highlight good practices, and discuss some of the challenges linked to their operationalisation. Read more now!
The future of finance is distributed, multiscale, and resilience-building
The future of finance will be less exploitative and better designed to generate sustainable value, inclusively. It will be distributed, multiscale, and resilience-building. We know this, because the raw math shows it must be so. Already the number of catastrophically costly events driven by climate destabilization has proliferated wildly. Most regions are now experiencing multiple overlapping major climateContinue reading “The future of finance is distributed, multiscale, and resilience-building”
Fast and Furious: The Rise of Environmental Impact Reporting in Food Systems
Explore trends, drivers, impacts and potential pitfalls, as well as the many open research and policy questions relating to environmental impact reporting
What are food environments and why do they matter?
GFFN Founding Partner, EAT Forum researchers are developing a classification approach to better understand the intersection between food environments, gender, nutrition, and other factors. Read the Brief now!
Guidance for Financial Institutions on the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)
GFFN’s supporting partner, UN Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP-FI), has released a series of publications that offer guidance to banks, investors and other financial institutions for recommendations and actions to align with the GBF.
Scaling Partnerships for Investment in Sustainable Food Systems, Forests, and Nature: Insights from a series of case studies
This brief outlines findings from the development of case studies, identifying a clear need for initiatives with extensive networks and robust convening power to accelerate the development of innovative investment partnerships in the sustainable food and land use systems space.
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