To generate sustainable benefits, this investment must be responsible. What role should investment incentives play in encouraging such investment? This Guide helps to answer that question. Specifically, the Guide provides policymakers and government technical staff with guidance on how investment incentives can be used (and how they should not be used) to enhance responsible investment in agriculture and food systems.
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Scaling up finance for sustainable food systems through blended finance: six catalytic actions
The Discussion paper from the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture, and Food Security (CCAFS) presents a snapshot of current challenges and opportunities associated with blended finance and calls for a radical sectoral shift in agriculture, using commercial banks, development finance institutions and other financial intermediaries as enablers for food systems transformation. It provides a situation analysis and a proposed action plan that was discussed in-depth during the GFFN Event ‘Strengthening collaboration between private and public banks to scale up finance for sustainable food systems”.
‘Food Finance Architecture: Financing a Healthy, Equitable and Sustainable Food System’ report launched at UN Summit
The United Nations Food Systems Summit launched the ‘Food Finance Architecture’ publication and policy brief, outlining the building blocks for how banks, investors, development institutions, companies, farmers, and governments can shift capital out of high-carbon, unequal, extractive food assets and into inclusive, climate-smart, circular business models that benefit the people and planet.
Finance leaders join forces to launch Good Food Finance Network
PRESS RELEASE — An international group of finance leaders are coming together to accelerate the mobilization of finance for healthier, more sustainable, and inclusive food systems. 21 September 2021—As the world is preparing for the landmark United Nations Food Systems Summit on 23 September 2021, finance leaders who have recognized the vital role of foodContinue reading “Finance leaders join forces to launch Good Food Finance Network”
2nd Good Food Finance High-Level Leaders Roundtable
EVENT — The 2nd Good Food Finance High-Level Leaders Roundtable took place on Monday, 20 September 2021, and launched the Good Food Finance Network. Network members will collaborate toward instrumentation of a global transition to finance for sustainable food systems. Food systems as they are now generate trillions of dollars in unfunded hidden costs—degrading climateContinue reading “2nd Good Food Finance High-Level Leaders Roundtable”
A Multi-Billion-Dollar Opportunity: Repurposing agricultural support to transform food systems
This joint FAO-UNDP-UNEP report calls for governments to rethink the way agriculture is subsidized and supported. The majority (87%) of $540 billion of support to agricultural producers is either price distorting or harmful to nature and health. Repurposing this support can help transform food systems and achieve the SDGs.
Making Finance Work for Food: Financing the Transition to a Sustainable Food System
This Finance for Biodiversity (F4B) report is the first to cover the interplay between food and finance. It has been prepared in the context of F4B’s collaboration with the Food System Economics Commission (FSEC), and as a contribution to the UN Food Systems Summit, as well as ongoing international climate and biodiversity negotiations.
Why our broken food system is overshooting the Earth’s planetary boundaries
Earth Overshoot Day marks the date in the year when the annual capacity of our planet to regenerate what we take from it is used up. Beyond this point, we eat into our planet’s natural capital. That day comes earlier every year, and our food systems are at the heart of this. GFFN partners Gunhild Stordalen and Jeremy Coller, along with Prof. Johan Rockström, published an op-ed to mark Earth Overshoot Day, examine the role of food systems, and highlight the need to secure a safe operating space for humanity.
Serving Up the Future
On April 30, 2021, the Good Food Finance Initiative convened its first high-level Leaders Roundtable. The meeting brought together key leaders and innovators to discuss a Good Food Finance Mission Statement, insights for rethinking return on investment, and work toward a multi-year Action Agenda for transforming food-related finance.
Food Systems in Conflict and Peacebuilding Settings: Pathways and Interconnections
The objectives of this three-part policy paper series are to emphasize the urgency of addressing the relationship between conflict and food insecurity and to point out existing opportunities to do so. This paper, the first in the series, aims, firstly, to inform policymakers of the intricate relationships between food security and violent conflict, secondly, to alert policymakers to the potential ability of food systems to contribute to peace, and then to highlight the action required to enhance this potential.
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