ABSTRACT
How can investment and creative finance support healthy and equitable food systems shifts? More donors, investors, and members of the finance community are seeking integrated, holistic methods to assess investments. Social enterprises are also looking to demonstrate the value add of their impact. Recently, the Transformational Investing in Food Systems Initiative (TIFS Initiative) (www.tifsinitiative.org) adapted The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture and Food’s True Cost Accounting Framework (TEEB for Agriculture & Food) (https://teebweb.org/agrifood/) into a tool for investors and entrepreneurs and have piloted the application of the tool. This chapter examines the strengths and weaknesses of such a tool for impact investing for food systems transformation and offers early case studies of how entrepreneurs and fund managers are looking to support equitable, agroecological food systems.
