Transforming food systems requires more than technological innovation and policy reforms—it calls for bold and strategic investments. This is the first post in a special blog series, Financing Food Systems Transformation, that explores the scale and scope of financing needed to support this transition. It examines current funding flows, identifies gaps, and highlights innovative financial solutions needed to ensure lasting and inclusive change across global food systems.
Food systems transformation cannot happen without expanding, changing, and reimagining how it is financed.
This issue will come to the fore as the global community gathers June 30-July 3 in Seville, Spain, for the Fourth International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4) to address critical issues related to financing sustainable development and reforming global financial systems. Soon after that, country representatives will meet July 28-29 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, for the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake (UNFSS+4) to assess where we are collectively on the journey that started at the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit (UNFSS).