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    Feeding future generations: How finance can boost innovation in agri-food - Executive Summary
    Feeding future generations: How finance can boost innovation in agri-food - Executive Summary
    Feeding future generations: How finance can boost innovation in agri-food - Executive Summary
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    Feeding future generations: How finance can boost innovation in agri-food - Executive Summary

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    The food sector is a strategic part of the European economy, but it faces many complex challenges:

    - The sector is afraid of risk
    - Spending on innovation is low
    - The sector does not use technology adequately
    - The financing landscape is too fragmentedTo prepare food production for the future, we need more innovation, we must reap the full potential of technology, and we need creative financing.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEuropean Investment Bank
    Release dateMay 16, 2019
    ISBN9789286142376
    Feeding future generations: How finance can boost innovation in agri-food - Executive Summary

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      Feeding future generations - European Investment Bank

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      Executive summary

      A new approach to food production

      To make sure our production of food is prepared for the future, we need more innovation in the agri-food sector and we must reap the full potential of existing and new technologies. As this study will explain, we also need creative and ambitious financing on various levels.

      Agri-food and the UN Sustainable Development Goals

      The agri-food sector contributes significantly to the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Many of these goals are directly connected to the agri-food value chain, such as hunger, nutrition, global partnerships, jobs and economic growth. To nourish the 815 million people who are hungry around the world and the 2 billion extra people expected to be undernourished by 2050, investments in agriculture and food production are crucial. Such investments will increase productivity and create more sustainable food production systems.

      The timetable for the UN goals, known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), is similar to the timeline for the European Commission’s FOOD 2030 initiative, which emphasises the importance of research to create more sustainable, circular, inclusive, competitive and healthy food systems. The initiative calls for a better approach to innovation that deploys solutions for key issues such as food waste, which equals 20% of EU production. The initiative also calls for coherent policy actions that go beyond funding for research and

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