Knaves Turned Honest (Food Ethics Council)
Can 21st century finance sustain 21st century agriculture?
Global food demand is set to rise sharply in the coming decades. Population growth, changing diets and environmental constraints will combine with declining global agricultural productivity to further pressurise the food system. It is likely that there will be an investment boom in agriculture and agribusiness infrastructure to meet this forecast demand. How might the finance industry and policy makers respond in a way that does not lead to further ecosystem destruction, yet deploys the required capital into primary production infrastructure and the broad range of technologies across the value chain?
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