Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives

Improving food systems requires significant expenditures and investments from both the public and private sector. In the case of public outlays, the decisions are taken by the government or by multilateral international organizations (with governments as their owners), while, obviously, private expe...

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Autores principales: Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio, Zandstra, Tamsin
Formato: Artículo preliminar
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: International Food Policy Research Institute 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175792
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author Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Zandstra, Tamsin
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description Improving food systems requires significant expenditures and investments from both the public and private sector. In the case of public outlays, the decisions are taken by the government or by multilateral international organizations (with governments as their owners), while, obviously, private expenditures and investments depend on choices by the private sector. These private financial flows are guided by the decisions of consumers, producers, banking system institutions, and operators in capital markets. Public policy cannot dictate directly how those private actors act (for instance, governments cannot mandate that consumers must eat healthy diets), but it can influence those decisions through adequate macroeconomic, regulatory, and incentive frameworks. This discussion paper will focus briefly on some ideas about how those frameworks can reorient and expand current levels of funding towards food systems transformation, focusing particularly on banking systems and capital markets. First, it briefly analyzes the levels of financial flows in the banking system and capital markets. Then it looks at the role of macroeconomic policy in influencing the operations of food systems, followed by suggestions about other regulatory and incentive frameworks to create healthy, equitable, sustainable and climate-resilient food systems.
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spelling CGSpace1757922025-11-06T07:04:50Z Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio Zandstra, Tamsin banking capital markets financing food systems economic systems macroeconomics regulations incentives Improving food systems requires significant expenditures and investments from both the public and private sector. In the case of public outlays, the decisions are taken by the government or by multilateral international organizations (with governments as their owners), while, obviously, private expenditures and investments depend on choices by the private sector. These private financial flows are guided by the decisions of consumers, producers, banking system institutions, and operators in capital markets. Public policy cannot dictate directly how those private actors act (for instance, governments cannot mandate that consumers must eat healthy diets), but it can influence those decisions through adequate macroeconomic, regulatory, and incentive frameworks. This discussion paper will focus briefly on some ideas about how those frameworks can reorient and expand current levels of funding towards food systems transformation, focusing particularly on banking systems and capital markets. First, it briefly analyzes the levels of financial flows in the banking system and capital markets. Then it looks at the role of macroeconomic policy in influencing the operations of food systems, followed by suggestions about other regulatory and incentive frameworks to create healthy, equitable, sustainable and climate-resilient food systems. 2025-07-24 2025-07-24T13:06:17Z 2025-07-24T13:06:17Z Working Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175792 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293991 https://doi.org/10.48565/scfss2021-ba75 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15703-5_35 https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896294257 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio; and Zandstra, Tamsin. 2025. Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives. IFPRI Discussion Paper 2349. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175792
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capital markets
financing
food systems
economic systems
macroeconomics
regulations
incentives
Díaz-Bonilla, Eugenio
Zandstra, Tamsin
Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives
title Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives
title_full Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives
title_fullStr Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives
title_full_unstemmed Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives
title_short Banking systems, capital markets, and financing the transformation of food systems: The role of macroeconomics, regulations, and incentives
title_sort banking systems capital markets and financing the transformation of food systems the role of macroeconomics regulations and incentives
topic banking
capital markets
financing
food systems
economic systems
macroeconomics
regulations
incentives
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/175792
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