This report highlights the latest data on undernourishment, food insecurity and malnutrition, as well as the cost and affordability of a healthy diet, reflecting people's economic access to nutritious food. The worsening food security and slow progress towards global nutrition targets demand increased efforts to achieve a world without hunger and malnutrition by 2030. Given the projected lower economic growth, high inflation, and rising borrowing costs since 2022, greater action is necessary.
Despite an increasing interest in impact investments, investors predominately pursue investments that focus on a single objective within a landscape, such as agricultural production or reforestation. The effects of these kinds of investments can be undone through the actions of other actors in the same landscape. Landscape financing takes a holistic approach to natural capital, in which all stakeholders agree, and investments are interlinked and strengthen each other. (page 123)
