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Policy briefInnovative finance for agrifood systems transformation 2025
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No results found.Public resources alone cannot meet the financing demands of small and medium-sized enterprises in agriculture, smallholders and other value chain actors. This policy brief explores how innovative finance can help to mobilize private capital for sustainable and resilient agrifood systems, promote social inclusion and address challenges like climate change and biodiversity loss. The brief also highlights the opportunities for and challenges to scaling innovative finance, assessing how new tools can be best leveraged for transformative impact and private capital mobilization in agrifood systems. -
Book (stand-alone)Green finance as a critical lever for delivering sustainable agrifood systems – A global landscape study 2023
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No results found.The global landscape study on ‘Green finance as a critical lever for delivering sustainable agrifood system’ is an inclusive commentary on the current status of green finance to agrifood sector in the global south and its support system. This document provides evidence that the current green finance trends favour the development of the clean energy industry, whereas smallholder agriculture has not had the same success. Financing the agrifood sector in a “business as usual” mode is not a sufficient condition to mitigate the risks emanated from a range of climatic shocks and unprecedented events impacting the global food value chains. Sustainable financing mechanisms through innovative instruments and business practices are potential solutions and green finance emerges as the way forward to shift the focus from economic profit creation to the generation of stakeholder’s value (economic, environmental, and social governance). The document presents an excellent opportunity that can help elicit ongoing initiatives, application mechanisms, and significant issues to build global narratives about developing an inclusive approach to green finance services for the agrifood sector. -
Book (stand-alone)Harvesting change: Harnessing emerging technologies and innovations for agrifood system transformation
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No results found.FAO’s Office of Innovation is working with partners on an FAO Chief Scientist initiative on Foresight on emerging agrifood technologies and innovations, aligned with the UN 2.0 process and the FOFA 2022: engaging all key actors of agricultural innovation systems in the foresight on emerging technologies and innovations to better prepare for alternative futures, feeding it into anticipatory action, and convening the global community for constructive dialogue and knowledge exchange. The aim is to support policymakers, investors and innovation actors in their approaches and decision-making. The study assesses a selection of technologies and innovations, which potentially could be of paramount importance in addressing agrifood challenges until 2050, as well as the most important trends and drivers that will influence the emergence of agrifood technologies and innovations and their triggers of change, including some regional aspects. The goal is also to build plausible future scenarios for the evolvement of the emerging technologies and innovations in the future with the time horizon of 2050 to inform future-oriented policymaking. The report is built with inputs from a multistakeholder Delphi survey and online workshops with experts.
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