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Financial imperatives to food system transformation

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Finance is a critical catalyst of food systems transformation. At the 2021 United Nations Food Systems Summit, the Financial Lever Group suggested five imperatives to tap into new financial resources while making better use of existing ones. These imperatives are yet to garner greater traction to instigate meaningful change.

In recognition of the critical role that finance must have in food systems transformation, the United Nations Food System Summit (UNFSS) framed finance as a cross-cutting theme throughout its activities by establishing the Finance Lever of Change (FLC). This was one of four such levers created in the lead up to the summit (the others were related to gender, human rights and innovation) along with five thematic Action Tracks and a Science Group. Positioning finance within this framework enabled members of the FLC to engage across different themes and actors in the UNFSS process and, by bringing together government, civil society and private sector interest groups, to address potential political-economy barriers to action for food systems transformation.

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    Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla

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    Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla, Brian McNamara, Johan Swinnen & Rob Vos

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Diaz-Bonilla, E., McNamara, B., Swinnen, J. et al. Financial imperatives to food system transformation. Nat Food 4, 531–533 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00785-y

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