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Building better food systems:
Financing transformation to support healthy
people, a healthy planet and healthy economies
Martien van Nieuwkoop,
Global Director, Agriculture and Food
Agriculture & Food

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A food system that
helps deliver by 2030
Vision/
interrelated targets
Currently off track
Healthy economy
(inclusive incomes, jobs &
livelihoods)
• Increase incomes of poor people that work
in the food system
• Support structural transformation
• 2030 end poverty target unlikely to be
met, significant lag in fragile, conflict
affected countries
Healthy people
(secure and safe food and
nutrition)
• End hunger and acute food insecurity
• Improve health outcomes [lower
micronutrient deficiency and obesity,
improved food safety, less zoonotic disease,
and reduced AMR]
• Increase in hunger since 2015
• 258 million acutely food insecure
• 2 billion people micro-nutrient
deficient
• 2 billion people overweight or obese
• Increase in zoonotic diseases
• Anti-microbial resistance
Healthy planet
(environmentally
sustainable practices)
• Operate within safe planetary boundaries
for sustainable resource use; lower
emissions; boost climate resilience
• Land degradation
• Water scarcity
• Pollution
• 25% of global GHG emissions
• Biodiversity loss
• High loss and waste
The Big Picture: The Global Food System Is Not Fit For Purpose
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Volatile, unsustainable
and inequitable growth
Green, resilient and
inclusive development
The Vision: A Global Food System in Support of Healthy People, Planet, Economy
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SECOND REVENUE STREAM
THIRD REVENUE STREAM
• More healthy Food from More Productivity
• Climate smart agriculture
• Diet oriented production – vegetables and proteins
versus carbos and fats
• Less food loss and waste
• Better market access from remote areas
• Buffering global supply disruptions
FIRST REVENUE STREAM
• Payment for Environmental Services
• Carbon sinks – forests, soils
• Biodiversity set-asides
• Pollutant recycling
• Biosecurity
• Renewables and sustainability
• Renewable energy for own use and grid – solar, wind,
micro-hydro
• Nutrient recycling – composting, organic matter
recovery, efficient chemicals
• Irrigation – water productivity, lower withdrawals
Farmers need to be resilient and climate smart through 3 revenue streams:
What does this Vision mean for Farmers?
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Food Systems Transformation: How Much Would Need To Be Invested?
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Only 4.3% of global climate finance goes to agrifood systems
Climate finance for
Agrifood systems
compared with estimated
needs: Should increase at
least seven-fold

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1. Reshape public support and incentives
2. Integrate health, environmental and social
risks into financial decision-making
3. Scale fit-for-purpose financial products and
business models
4. Secure equitable food systems
5. Strengthen food governance and stability
The food systems architecture: Five financing imperatives
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No single institution can provide the necessary financing
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Links with
Evolution
Roadmap
Objectives
Scaling up and optimizing for impact
Supporting good country outcomes
while addressing global challenges
Stepping up WBG ability to respond
to crisis
Engaging at regional and global level
to complement country engagement
Cross-cutting: Facilitating private
capital
Cross-cutting: Mobilizing domestic
resources
2. Scaling up short- and medium-term solutions to establish and
enhance early warning / early action and crisis preparedness
1. Long-term and multisectoral solutions to build resilience and tackle all
dimensions of food and nutrition insecurity
• Country/Regional/Global Engagements: Establish and enhance early
warning systems, monitor trade food and fertilizer trade policies, Food
Security Crises Preparedness Plans, and GAFS Global FNS Dashboard
• Anticipatory / Early Action Financing: Development of country-specific
contingent financial instruments to be mobilized at the early signs of an
emerging crisis; WB Crisis Response Window Early Response Financing,
Global Agriculture and Food Security Program
• Humanitarian-Development Nexus Collaboration: GAFS, Global
Network Against Food Crises
Food Availability
Livelihoods and
Private Sector
(AGF, ENV, MTI/FCI)
Food Access
Social Protection
(SPJ)
Food Utilization
Malnutrition
(HNP)
Food Stability
Public Policies and
Expenditures, Trade
(AGF, MTI/FCI, TRA)
Resilience
Balancing short and long-term interventions to accelerate food systems transformation to achieve Zero Hunger while boosting resilience
WB response to FNS crisis so far – $45 billion (against the target of $30 billion)
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Global Food and
Nutrition Security
PASA (P180304)
Trade Policy, Climate
Change, and Food Security:
Priorities for a Just and
Sustainable Transition in -
(P181036)
Repurposing public
policies and support
for healthy diets PASA
(P180735)
Transformation against the backdrop of a global food and nutrition security
FNS is a Corporate priority – one of the new Global Priority Programs
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Critical actions for food systems transformation are the critical actions for food
security
Investments
Information
• De-risk private investments in climate-smart
agriculture and green supply chain to attract more
sustainable financing.
• Encourage ambitious Environmental, Social, and
Governance (ESG) standards by private sector,
benefiting from these arrangements.
• Mobilize resources for crisis response and
resilience building including both short-term crisis
response and long-term transformation initiatives
• Enhance data collection and analysis for better understanding of food
systems and vulnerabilities.
• Promote open data and digital technologies to facilitate access to information.
• Strengthen information dissemination channels for accurate and timely
communication on food security.
Incentives
• Re-align incentives to eliminate
hidden costs, promote resilience and
nutrition.
• Redirect policies and public support
programs for positive impacts.
• Foster a productive, resilient, and
sustainable food system that delivers
triple wins for people, planet, and
economies.
The Just Rural Transition initiative supports and
amplifies innovative policies, investments, and multi-
stakeholder solutions by building an action-oriented
evidence base.
Innovation
• Accelerate data-driven and digital
agricultural innovation to address global
food crisis challenges.
• Embrace emerging opportunities to
enhance productivity, sustainability,
and efficiency in food production.
• Leverage technology and innovative
practices to drive both short-term and
long-term food security solutions.
The Agriculture Innovation Mission for Climate
(Aim4Climate) is accelerating this work by increasing
investment in climate-smart agriculture and food systems
innovation.
IFC's Global Food Security Platform plays a crucial role in
strengthening the private sector's capacity to address the crisis
and contribute to food production.
Institutions
• Establish predictable and transparent institutions to reduce self-
inflicted damage to the food system.
• Scale up well-targeted safety nets for the poor in times of need.
• Strengthen governance and regulatory frameworks for food systems.
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• $600 billion provided as support to producers by 79 countries
• 65% distorts producer incentives (market price support, input
and output subsidies)
• Repurposing Agricultural Policies and Support: a major
focus of FS2030
• Global Policy Dialogues
• Share evidence, knowledge, and experience on policy actions
• 49 countries engaged since 2020
• Upstream diagnostics: technical and financial support
• 33 countries (13 done, 17 ongoing, 3 planned)
• Operationalization: from diagnostics to action
• Implementation support grants - US$ 75 million provided to 5
countries (Ghana, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Bangladesh).
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HIC MIC LIC
Percent
of
Gross
Farm
Receipts
Subsidies Price distortions
Agricultural Producer Support as Share of Gross Farm Receipts
(Percent, 2016-18)
HIC = High income countries, MIC = Middle income countries,
LIC = Low-income countries
There Is A Major Opportunity to Realign INCENTIVES
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It Is Important To Accelerate Agricultural INNOVATION
Investments in CGIAR have generated enormous returns
• US$ 60 billion investment over five decades
• 10 : 1 benefit cost ratio
• But… agricultural research is “slow magic”
World Bank long relationship with CGIAR
 Leadership role as Chair of the CGIAR System Council
 Financing to CGIAR for five decades – currently $30m/year
Critical to support ongoing One CGIAR reforms
• Transformative changes across five SDG-related Impact Areas
• Investment in innovation, partnerships, capacity sharing, policy engagement
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• Allow For Systematic Food
Systems Focus
• Ensure Effective Inter-Ministerial
Coordination
• Apply a Food Systems Lens on
the Public Budget
• Integrate Farmers’ Voice
It Is Critical To Strengthen INSTITUTIONS
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A compact between public and private sector for crowding in private sector
investment is necessary
There Is An Urgent Need to Scale Needed INVESTMENTS
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One
Healthy
Sustainable Diets
TwoDigital
agriculture, Data
and Innovations
Three
Agribusiness
Four
Climate Smart
Agriculture
Five
Public Policy and
Expenditures
Six
Food and
nutrition security
5STRATEGICDIRECTIONS:
Improve diets
Reduce risk of
zoonotic
diseases
Improve food
safety
Reduce net
GHGEs
Reduce
pollution
Improve land,
water, and
chemical mgmt.
and reduce FLW
Promote
productivity
growth
Create jobs
Realign
incentives to
drive change
9INTERCONNECTEDPATHWAYSTOCHANGE:
Healthy People
Healthy Planet
Healthy Economies
AGF internal alignment to deliver transformative, interconnected pathways to
transform food systems
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Engagements underpinned by a robust knowledge program - leveraging global
and regional knowledge to inform policies and drive results at the country level.
Global and regional knowledge
Global ASAs provides
evidence linking
repurposing public
policies and support with
outcomes to build long-
term resilience
Repurposing public
policies and support
in 5 countries through
FoodSystems2030
grant funding
“Greening
China’s Rice
Value Chain”
informs future
green reforms
and
investments in
the rice value
chain.
In China,
informs design
of Methane-
Reducing and
Water Saving
Paddy Rice
Project, for
effective agri-
water linked
solutions.
EAP AFE
In South Sudan,
guides design of
a livestock
development
project, reflecting
a shift from
reactive to more
growth-oriented
approach to
agriculture.
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"Support
Policy
Dialogue in
the Agri-
Food Sector
in the
Maghreb
Countries”
informed
emergency
food security
response.
MENA
In Tunisia,
the
emergency
food response
led to policy
advancement
towards
improved food
security.
Global Food and
Nutrition Security
PASA focuses on
building short-term
response
and preparedness
mechanisms
Food security crisis
preparedness plans
(FSCPPs) being
designed across 25
countries in CY24.
“Food Security
Technical
Assessments”
prepared for
several
countries with a
focus on building
urgency on Food
Security
Response.
AFW
In Cameroon,
Chad, Niger,
Sierra Leone,
Liberia,
Burkina Faso
and Cabo
Verde, serves
as basis for
access to CRW-
ERF financing.
“Transforming
Agriculture in
South Sudan”
looks into
transitioning from
a humanitarian
aid to
development-
oriented growth
path, via 4
investment
strategies in an
FCV context.
Knowledge Compact for Action
• Enhanced suite of core analytics and
diagnostics.
• New products to support Global Challenges
and GPPs.
Pillar I: Updated Knowledge Products
Pillar II: Staff and clients with enhanced skills
• Development of WBG Academies and
continued professional education programs.
• Better leveraged WBG Hubs and
representation offices.
Pillar III : Strategic high-value partnerships
• Bringing together country and global level
partners.
• New publications to support the enhanced
WBG Mission.
• Leveraged WBG information architecture
(website, library, archives).
• “WBG Speakers Corp”- to step-up leadership
on key development issues and global
challenges
Pillar IV : Improved WBG knowledge
processes and systems
• Scaled up data and digitalization in knowledge
and ASAs.
• More rigorous review processes with stronger
outcome-orientation.
• Strengthened accountability for knowledge
work with enhanced coordination.
IFC
Rapid assessments of
climate, soil, water
and agronomic factors
were used to improve
agribusiness
investment and
advisory decisions in
Burkina
Faso, Cameroon,
DRC, and Timor-
Leste
IFC's knowledge
and advisory
support spans
gender integration,
food safety
improvement,
smallholder
capacity building,
and sustainable
livestock
investment
practices
Country level operations informed by global and regional knowledge, to influence policies for food systems transformations

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Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard
Global Food and Nutrition Security Dashboard
Information platform of the Global Alliance for Security (GAFS)
One-stop shop providing timely global and country-level data on food
crisis severity, global food security financing and innovative research to
strengthen crisis response and resilience
Provides a comprehensive understanding of food and nutrition crises
through centralization and visualization of key data and information
streams from 40+ GAFS partners
1. Supports decision-making at country, regional and global-level for
donors, governments and FNS partners working to respond to and
prevent emerging crises
2. Facilitates coordination of humanitarian and development policy
and financial responses to crises and resilience-building efforts
Global Launch of Dashboard in November 2022 at COP27
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Developing tools: 3FS – Tracking Financial Flows to Food Systems (with IFAD)
Food Systems Financing Tool
Measuring Financial Flows to Food Systems
for effective investments
3FS
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Thank you