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  • FSF is developing a collective science-based methodology for impact measurement and management to achieve the accountability and transparency needed to drive increased capital towards nutrition and health food systems transformation.

    Our toolkit aims to be relevant across the food system value chain and for diverse private financiers throughout the asset lifecycle. At present our toolkit includes a pre-investment screening tool to assist in triaging pipeline companies based on a business's breadth of efforts to improve nutrition and a dynamic due diligence tool to provide a quantitative deep dive into fundamental and supporting business activities impacts on nutrition.

    These tools are accompanied by supporting tools to assist users with limited nutrition knowledge, including a comprehensive dictionary and an expanded tool for defining nutritious foods at various points in the food system value chain.

    The success of this impact measurement and management toolkit relies on their adoption and widespread use, so we intend for them to become a public good.

    At present, we are engaging with academics, investors, and folks from the industry to validate the methodology and enhance the user experience

  • The Good Food Finance Network (GFFN) is a multi-stakeholder collaborative innovation platform, working to develop the critical innovations that will allow sustainable food system finance to become the mainstream standard. In addition to FSF, the Network includes EAT, FAIRR, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the World Business Council for Sustainable Development WBCSD), Access to Nutrition Initiative, Rabobank, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), S2G Ventures, the World Bank, the Global Environment Facility (GEF), Just Rural Transition, and other supporting partners.

    FSF contributes to the mission and vision of the GFFN by sharing intellectual capital, participating in key events, and deploying staff and financial resources. Additionally, FSF’s CEO and Founder Ambassador Ertharin Cousin acts as a co-Chair of the GFFN alongside Wieber Draijer (Rabobank), and Rebeca Grynspan (Secretary General, UNCTAD).

    Priorities of GFFN for 2023 include actively transforming food systems finance via:

    1. High Ambition Group – raising ambition on sustainable food systems as an investable SDG solution area by setting targets

    2. Co-investment platform – Overcoming barriers, identifying opportunities and unblocking finance flows through the convening of finance actors

    3. Advocacy and knowledge management – strengthening accountability systems and incentives.

    For more information, please visit the GFFN website.

  • To help increase the adoption of nutritious foods; encourage an informed, active community of food system stakeholders; and drive policy changes that support a more equitable food finance landscape, FSF launched the Advancing Good Food webinar series to highlight the varied issues that limit and the innovations and opportunities that support an equitable, market-driven food system.

    By intentionally convening stakeholders from across industry, academia, the public sector, and most importantly, those with lived experiences of hunger and diet-related disease, we hope to encourage increased collaboration within the community of the advocates, decision-makers, and organizations committed to a just food system transformation.

    Click here to watch the latest webinar!

  • COP28 was a watershed moment for putting food systems on the climate agenda. Food Systems for the Future was pleased to play an active role in building the global, political, financial, and business momentum around food systems transformation, with a range of interventions throughout the 12 days of COP28. 

    Follow the link to get some highlights from our journey at COP28, and the agenda we are pushing forward for healthier, more sustainable and more equitable food systems of and for the future.  

    We are looking forward to COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, scheduled for 11-24 November 2024. Stay tuned for programming updates regarding our involvement in this significant event.