In a commentary in AgriInvestor, a leading source of insight and intelligence for private investment in agribusiness, TIFS Director Rex Raimond highlights why conventional food systems financing is failing and … Read More

ImpactAlpha features a TIFS commentary on how investors can help transform food systems in the face of a global crisis brough on by the Covid pandemic, war in Ukraine and … Read More

Impact Investor Magazine features the ‘Mobilizing Money and Movements: Creative finance for food systems transformation’ report which calls for a more blended and creative finance approach, that goes beyond financial … Read More

TIFS Director Rex Raimond is a featured speaker at the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa 2022, a trailblazing convening to build a shared vision for the growth of African … Read More

Food Tank story features TIFS Director Rex Raimond speaking on the need for finance leaders to go beyond ESG and take a systems-based approach when it comes to investing in … Read More

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.