TIFS is co-creating financial structures and innovations that increase capital flows to regenerative and agroecological innovators

We do this by:

• Collaborating with our network of finance practitioners and investors who are tightly connected to food producers, consumers, governments, and other landscape actors to organize into innovation hubs that identify opportunities for expanding existing or building new financial structures and innovations, especially in North America and East Africa.  

• Convening investors to co-design interventions that increase and improve access to finance, redistribute risk, and deepen their collective impact. Our interventions may include designing appropriate investment vehicles, facilitating collaboration on investing in critical value chains, sharing investment pipeline and due diligence, and educating and engaging new investors interested in regeneration and agroecology.

Current Initiatives:

• Applying a “Venture Studio” Approach to Financial Innovation: We are developing an approach and a toolkit for multi-stakeholder collaborations to create financial innovations that deepen the regenerative transition in specific landscapes. The approach creates the conditions for producers, entrepreneurs and financiers to co-create solutions that unlock deeper regenerative or agroecological transitions.

• Catalyzing the Deployment of Transition Finance: As we leverage the ecosystem and financial innovations, we aim to catalyze the deployment of finance that accelerates the transition to regenerative and agroecological markets. This includes supporting partners who are developing landscape level projects, giving visibility to a growing pipeline of systemic investments, strengthening the networks of values-aligned investors, and catalyzing the creation of needed investment vehicles.

• Systemic Investing Assessment: We have developed and begun to engage in fund assessment through SIA, the Systemic Investing Assessment. This tool is grounded in science, True Cost Accounting (the scientifically validated TEEB AgriFood), and the principles of the Global Alliance and agroecology. SIA is positioned for use by financial analysts and designed to produce systemic data analysis useful to investment decision-makers. For investors, SIA can identify investments that best match the investment hypothesis, values, priority areas and quality criteria; compares investment opportunities; and increases market development through the increased use and standardization of impact tools in investment practices.