Aligning markets with conservation-minded approaches to sustain a healthy planet.
Feeding humanity in 2050 will require at least a doubling in global food production. Over the last 10 years, we’ve seen producers and innovative companies prove it is possible and profitable to meet rising demand while preserving habitats, biodiversity and other ecosystem impacts. Now, it’s about getting to scale.
Today, companies are increasingly incentivized to pay attention to the business risks and opportunities stemming from natural resource use to increase resilience in their supply chains. They are setting more stringent purchasing standards and investing in shifting the practices of producers.
To address these needs with the urgency and scale required, we work with value chain actors to drive behavior change and reshape markets for high-impact food commodities and specific minerals. By transforming how these globally traded commodities are produced, sourced and financed, we can mitigate the environmental threats posed by rising international demand.
Together with our grantees, we are engaging with the private sector in:
- High-impact food commodities – Decoupling food commodity production, trading and financing from environmental impacts such as deforestation, habitat conversion, overfishing, water use and greenhouse gas emissions.
- Transition minerals – ensuring that the impacts of mining on nature’s ecosystems are accounted for, trade-offs are made transparent, and new mines for high-demand minerals are developed in ways that minimize harm without slowing the energy transition.
- Finance — supporting financial institutions in driving the food sector away from production practices that degrade natural ecosystems, in collaboration with the Finance Hub - created to advance sustainable finance.
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