Good Food Finance Week 2023

24-28 April 2023. Good Food Finance Week 2023. The GFFN is hosting the Second Annual Good Food Finance Week (GFFW) which will include a series of virtual sessions aiming to bring together leaders in the food and finance industries to discuss the latest trends and innovations in financing sustainable food systems.

The five-day event will provide a platform for participants to learn about the latest developments in financing sustainable, healthy, and accessible food systems and explore opportunities for investment and collaboration. Featured sessions will include keynote speakers, panel discussions, and interactive workshops.

24/04 @15:00 – 16:00 CEST. Leaders Dialogue: Catalyzing good food finance to address interconnected risks

During this dialogue, some of our GFFN Principals and other leaders in the food finance sector discussed the critical challenges and solutions for catalyzing mainstream capital flows for healthy, sustainable food systems.

24/04 @16:00 – 17:00 CEST. Private Sector Engagement – Part 1: Stocktaking private sector investment and hurdles in food systems transformation

The outcomes of this conversation will feed into the session Private Sector Engagement – Part 2: Consultation on the Co-Investment Platform (CIP)

25/04 Public Finance: Financing Food Security and Food System Transformation

The session will present the findings of the blog Good Food System Transition: Repurposing agricultural support to promote fiscal resilience, human and planetary health exploring how the potential savings can be used by Minister of Finance to repurpose some of the public and development expenditure. This event is hosted by ECDPM, together with Food Systems for the Future and FAIRR.

• Ertharin Cousin (Founder and CEO, Food Systems for the Future)
• Hamid Hamirani (Senior Investment Advisor, Food Systems for the Future): Presentation “Repurposing agricultural support to promote fiscal resilience, human and planetary
• health”
• Marco Sanchez (Deputy Director of Agrifood Economics at FAO)
• Melissa Miners (World Business Council for Sustainable Development; and previously Global Sustainability Senior Manager at Unilever)
• Sauli Hurri (Senior Regional Technical Specialist at IFAD in East Africa)
• Saleh Shanfari (CEO Oman Food Investment Company)
• Cecilia D’Alessandro (Policy officer, sustainable food systems, ECDPM)

Resource:

ECDPM and FAO developed a methodology to leverage sustainable investments in agri-food systems (Rampa and Dekeyser, 2022a) and tested it – in collaboration with local governments, farmers, processors and financial intermediaries – in four African countries: Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya and Niger. Country-specific reports detailing the application of the five steps can be found here.

25/04 Nutrition Impact: Delivering food systems transformation to meet nutrition and finance returns: challenges and opportunities for evidence-based investing

This session highlighted the progress and opportunities for engaging investors in driving private sector accountability for nutrition impact.

26/04 @15:00 – 16:00 CEST. Data Systems Integration Dialogue: Blueprint for good food finance review

Delivering good food finance at scale, through mainstream economic activity, will require multidimensional metrics.

Resource: GFFN (2023) Climate Metrics: measuring progress and catalyzing investment in sustainable food systems # 20 p.

• This brief on climate metrics is the second document published by the Good Food Finance Network (GFFN) Metrics Catalyst Group. The First Metrics Brief of the GFFN Metrics Catalyst Group is available on the GFFN website.
• This brief summarizes key trends in climate-related metrics used by financial institutions working in the sustainability of food systems.

26/04 @16:00 – 17:00 CEST. Co-Investment Platform (CIP) Landscapes Portfolio: Zero-draft working session

Which sustainable landscapes initiatives should be included in a mapping of good food finance priorities?

27/04 @15:00 – 16:00 CEST. Scoping the Role of Cities in Good Food Finance – Exploratory Meeting

The exploratory meeting will convene and connect multiple existing networks—including C40, Good Food Cities, the Food Forward Consortium, Food Trails, and the cities that have signed up to the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact.

27/04 @16:00 – 17:00 CEST. Private Sector Engagement – Part 2: Consultation on the Co-Investment Platform (CIP)

The Good Food Finance Network (GFFN) is designing a Co-Investment Platform (CIP), to be launched at COP28, which aims to scale investment in sustainable food systems and shift capital flows to the sector to align with climate, biodiversity and inequality goals.

27/04 @15:00 – 16:00 CEST. UNEP Publication Launch: Driving Finance for Sustainable Food Systems: A roadmap to implementation for financial institutions and policy makers

Resource: During this webinar event, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will introduce the Publication on ‘Driving Finance for Sustainable Food Systems: A Roadmap to Implementation for Financial Institutions and Policy Makers’. 

• This report attempts to address this challenge by providing a roadmap for private financiers to drive significant capital flows towards food systems. 
• It includes identifying their impacts, measuring performance, setting targets, monitoring and disclosing. 
• It also describes innovative new instruments and financing techniques, including blended finance, and addresses the policy changes needed to create an enabling environment. 

The webinar will: 

• Present key findings of the launched report;
• Highlight good practices demonstrated and promoted by the Good Food Finance Network´s High Ambition Group;
• Provide a platform for stakeholders to discuss issues, challenges and ways forward to unlock opportunities for financiers and policy makers to increase sustainable investments and lending in the agrifood sector.

27/04 @16:00 – 17:00 CEST. Co-Investment Platform (CIP) Instrumentation Dialogue

The Co-Investment Platform for Food Systems Transformation will serve as both a financial mechanism and a coordinating mechanism, to support the mainstreaming of good food finance, in line with human and planetary health, and climate goals.