Social finance for sustainable food systems: opportunities, tensions and ambiguities

P Stephens - Agriculture and Human Values, 2021 - Springer
In recent years social financiers have been increasingly investing in alternative food systems
to improve sustainability outcomes. However, social finance for alternative food systems
remains small and marginalized. This article seeks to understand why this approach is not
yet making a larger impact towards food system transformation. It does so by investigating a
specific application of social finance through the case of Slow Money to get answers as to
why social finance occupies a niche role in food system transformation. These answers …

Social Finance for Sustainable Food Systems

P Stephens - 2021 - uwspace.uwaterloo.ca
The scholarly literature demonstrates that dominant financial investment patterns tend to
contribute to unsustainable outcomes in the food system. Mainstream lending hurts
prospects for building more sustainable food systems as it tends to favour large-scale
industrial food and farming businesses. Mainstream finance tends to under-resourced
alternative food systems by not providing them with the capital they need to grow and thrive.
Further, financialization, which can be understood as the growing share of financial rather …
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