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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!

Ahead of COP28, FSF is committed to delivering thought leadership on the diverse solutions required to increase access to affordable, nutrition food for all and expanding the network of climate finance actors who embrace an agri-food systems transformation that reduces greenhouse gas emissions, promotes biodiversity, improves human health, and provides equitable financial returns for all.

To this end, FSF is working on two parallel streams of effort: Embracing a Diversity of Solutions to Tackle the Complexity of Agri-Food Systems Transformation, For People, Planet and Prosperity and Private Sector Financing for a Just Agri-Food Systems Transformation.

For both streams, FSF is undertaking the following key activities:

1) Event planning and execution: we aim to host though-provoking side-events and panel discussions at 3 Key Moments (UNFSS Stocktaking, Rome - July 2023 | Climate Week, NYC & UN General Assembly – September 2023; and COP28 , Dubai – December 2023) in partnership with event leads and collaborators (FAO, AIM for Climate, the COP28 Secretariat, GFFN, etc).

2) Report writing: In partnership with the Friedman School of Nutrition and Science & Policy at Tufts University, we are writing a report to elevate the conversation around food in advance of COP28 by highlighting the critically of agri-food systems transformation in achieving global climate, health and equitable return goals and putting forward an ambitious call to action for major stakeholders.

3) Community of practice building: Finally, in close partnership with the COP28 Secretariat, we are working to build and grow a Community of Practice of global private financiers, representing diverse geographies and investment modalities, committed to actively deploying capital for innovations that drive a just agri-food systems transformation for People, Planet, and Prosperity - grounded in Partnership.

FSF will serve as the necessary and well-placed fulcrum of this dynamic Community of Practice, leveraging and supporting this network of aligned financiers to carry out and achieve the ambitions outlined by Pillar 4 of the COP28 agri-food systems transformation efforts.

Follow the link to discover our roadmap to COP28