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Increased investment in agriculture and food systems—from both the private and public sectors—is critical to enhance food security and nutrition, reduce poverty, and adapt to climate change. To generate sustainable benefits, this investment must be responsible.
What role should investment incentives play in encouraging such investment? This guide helps to answer that question. Specifically, the guide provides policymakers and government technical staff with guidance on how investment incentives can be used (and how they should not be used) to enhance responsible investment in agriculture and food systems.
The guide provides an overview of responsible investment in agriculture and food systems; examines common types of incentives; offers general considerations on how incentives can be used; and discusses how to plan for, design, monitor, and evaluate investment incentives for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems.
The types of incentives examined are:
Guide on incentives for responsible investment in agriculture and food systems
English
| Year of publication | |
| Publisher | FAO |
| Geographic coverage | Global |
| Knowledge service | Metadata | Global Food and Nutrition Security |Sustainable Food Systems |Food system |
| Digital Europa Thesaurus (DET) | Agricultureinvestmentfinancing policyfiscal policyregulatory policysupport mechanismpolicymaking |
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