Food Finance Nexus

How can global finance be shaped to support the transition to an inclusive, healthy, sustainable food system? NatureFinance’s Food Finance Nexus (FFN) work is exploring how our food system is impacted by the extent and ways in which the financial sector integrates nature and climate risks.

 

Global finance shapes the food system, and public and private financing decisions shape how the food system impacts people and the planet.

Today’s global food system – valued at US$8trillion a year and accounting for almost 10 percent of the global economy – is fundamentally unviable as a result of its contribution to climate change, destruction of biodiversity, unstable food prices and security, and provision of low quality, low paid jobs.

Indeed, these unpaid-for negative impacts have been estimated to be worth US$12 trillion by the World Bank – significantly more than the food systems’ annual economic value.

Food Finance Nexus Phase 1

NatureFinance’s work on the Food Finance Nexus is seeking how best to ensure a rapid, fair, and safe transition. We need to move towards a system that produces affordable healthy food in ways aligned to climate and nature goals, whilst avoiding transition risks such as widespread bankruptcy, devastating rural unemployment, increased food prices, poverty and inequality.​

​Getting financialisation right is a pre-condition for an effective food system transition. Crowding in deeper levels of private capital at all stages of the food system is needed to support the transition. But ‘more private finance’ alone is an insufficient condition for ensuring that the transition is rapid, fair, and safe or that it will lead to an inclusive, sustainable, healthy food system. Read more

 

Food Finance Nexus Phase 2

NatureFinance most recently has developed a three-level approach: first, a global modelling exercise provides vital data on how it will impact food systems; second, a deep dive in Brazil which showcases how this will impact a particular jurisdiction and the role of policy intervention; third, insights on Brazilian consumer behaviour and how to nudge it towards sustainable choices. This mosaic approach can be replicated in other regions and scaled globally in future phases of work. Read more

“The global financial system can and must be reshaped to internalise nature and climate costs, and ultimately do its job by financing the next generation of food production systems that can deliver affordable nutrition for all.”

Marcelo Furtado Principal, NatureFinance

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