The World Economic Forum’s Food Systems Initiative presents this report on the role of incentives in enabling food systems transformation. Driven by rapidly growing concerns about diet-related health
impacts, damage to the ecosystem, links to climate change and distress among several million small-scale food producers, recognition is growing that immediate action is required to transform
the way in which food is produced, accessed, distributed, valued
and consumed.
An important aspect of this transformation is a growing recognition of the need for the realignment and repurposing of current incentives to encourage food system actors to pursue an agenda for change.
This report focuses on four pathways for creating the incentives needed to transform food systems:
- Repurposing public investment and policies pathway
- Business model innovation pathway
- Institutional investment pathway
- Consumer behavioural change pathway