Tag Archives: agriculture

Agroecology to drive high-value sustainable development

As the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference enters the closing days, many of the highest-value areas of climate-related investment and transformation remain largely untapped by the mainstream economy. While the negotiations in Belém, at the edge of the Amazon region, have advanced new initiatives for sharing science insights and investing in conservation, it is important that we not overlook theContinue reading “Agroecology to drive high-value sustainable development”

Active Value joints Integrated Data Systems Initiative

Active Value is joining the Good Food Finance Network’s Integrated Data Systems Initiative, as part of our work toward multidimensional metrics for food systems finance and value chain management. The IDSI is a 5-year innovation sprint, initiated in May 2023 by the Good Food Finance Network, for the Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate Summit. The goal isContinue reading “Active Value joints Integrated Data Systems Initiative”

Agrifood transformation can secure a livable climate & ocean future

In its flagship Recipe for a Livable Planet report, the World Bank found that  Agrifood is a bigger contributor to climate change than many think. It generates almost a third of GHG emissions, averaging around 16 gigatons annually. This is about one-sixth more than all of the world’s heat and electricity emissions. This has several far-reaching practicalContinue reading “Agrifood transformation can secure a livable climate & ocean future”

Consider the human – Report from Part 1 of GFFN Data Systems Integration Forum

On Wednesday, March 26, 2025, CCI convened Part 1 of the Good Food Finance Network’s Data Systems Integration Forum. This virtual discussion forum focused on work needed to activate insights from the Good Food Finance Blueprint for Data Systems Integration, released last year. The aim of this interactive forum is to establish parameters for early and advanced stageContinue reading “Consider the human – Report from Part 1 of GFFN Data Systems Integration Forum”

City food finance principles to build Climate Value

Cities are increasingly important in the work of shaping human access to health and wellbeing. As more of the world’s population moves to cities, decisions that determine whether air and water are clean and safe, and how food is acquired and distributed in local economies, may determine how long people live and how free theyContinue reading “City food finance principles to build Climate Value”

Innovative Collaborative Funding Model de-risks investments in good food transformation

By Hamid Hamirani, Senior Advisor FSF and Managing Principal EHA Advisory Innovative Collaborative Funding Model: De-Risking Investing in the Good Food Transformation The Innovative Collaborative Funding Model (ICFM) is designed to address food security, improve nutritional outcomes, support adoption of climate smart agricultural practices, and enhance sovereign fiscal resilience. A new paper outlines the model, along withContinue reading “Innovative Collaborative Funding Model de-risks investments in good food transformation”

Make trade work for everyone

Climate value must be built into all decisions on trade By Steve Valk As the world strives to meet the challenge of reducing greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep the increase in temperature from exceeding the 1.5°C threshold, international trade has the potential to be the driver of best-case outcomes for people and for theContinue reading “Make trade work for everyone”

Blueprint for data systems integration—tracking high-value co-benefits

The Integrated Data Systems Initiative is a five-year innovation sprint, organized by the Good Food Finance Network (GFFN) and recognized by the 2023 Agriculture Innovation Mission (AIM) for Climate Summit. Today, the GFFN is releasing a ‘Blueprint for Good Food Finance Data Systems Integration’, which marks the culmination of Year 1 of that sprint. WhenContinue reading “Blueprint for data systems integration—tracking high-value co-benefits”

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”