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In our full update to the TIFS Community in January 2022, we shared updates about our recent work to: grow the community of foundation and impact investors who provide flexible capital for innovative food and ag enterprises; develop food systems investing approaches; and bring together asset owners, asset managers, entrepreneurs, service providers, and civil society organizations to deepen understanding of transformational investments.

TIFS has been working with partners on two food systems investing tools: a tool to assess the alignment of enterprises with the principles of agroecology; a tool to assess investment funds alignment with food systems transformation principles.

Rex Raimond co-authored an article with Jennifer Astone in Alliance Magazine’s Special Issue on Food Systems “Business as usual is a non-starter.”

Rex Raimond was a speaker on the “Counting the True Cost: How Understanding the Real Cost of Food Can Improve Nutrition for All” during the Nutrition for Growth Summit 2021.

Rex Raimond was a speaker on the “Investment and Finance for Healthy and Sustainable Diets” panel

TIFS wrote a guest blog on The power of ‘True Value’ assessments for food system investments for the launch of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food True Value: Revealing the Positive Impacts of Food Systems Transformation.

Rex Raimond of TIFS Initiative spoke at the annual ESG for Impact! conference about insights from food systems investing during a panel on Achieving Systemic Change: ESG Portfolios for the New Economy: Advocacy, Social Justice and Climate Risk. Listen to the podcast interview.

Biovision Foundation and the Transformational Investing in Food Systems (TIFS) Initiative, held a major event “Investing in Food Systems Transformation” on 16 September 2021. To watch the event, find the recording here

TIFS is excited to welcome the launch of True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale! Jennifer Astone, Tim Crosby and Rex Raimond contributed a chapter on Investing in the True Value of Sustainable Food Systems.

On 16 June 2021 the TIFS Community discussed findings of two studies that explore financing towards agroecological food systems. “Credit Where Due” presents findings from an initial analysis of post-Brexit agroecological financing opportunities in the United Kingdom (UK). “Supporting Agroecological Enterprises (AEEs) in Africa” analyzes existing AEEs in Africa and their service providers.

On 21 April 2021, the TIFS Community met to discuss two new projects on investing in food systems transformation and an update about the UN Food Systems Summit.