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Financing Food Fast: Blended Capital and the Race to 2030

CEO of VegTech™ Invest, Elysabeth Alfano, speaks with Caitlin Maclean, senior director of Innovative Finance at the Milken Institute and Holly Freishtat, senior director at Feeding Change. The investment landscape is undergoing a transformation as institutional and philanthropic investors increasingly turn their attention to food systems. Historically overshadowed by sectors like renewable energy and technology, food systems are now being recognized as both a major contributor to climate change and a critical area for financial growth. As discussed in the latest episode of Upside & Impact: Investing for Change, hosted by Elysabeth Alfano, CEO of VegTech Invest, the food industry is not only an essential component of human health and food security but also a significant factor in global economic resilience and sustainability. Food systems as …

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Why Institutional and Philanthropic Investors Are Focusing on Food – the Milken Institute on the Plant Based Business Hour

Caitlin MacLean, Senior Director of Innovative Finance at the Milken Institute, and Holly Freishtat, Senior Director at Feeding Change, join Elysabeth Alfano on The Plantbased Business Hour to discuss blended capital and why institutional and philanthropic investors are using this approach to focus on food. Specifically, they discuss: What is the Milken Institute’s Feeding Change initiative? What does it aim to accomplish? Holly, what were your takeaways from COP28, and have you seen this play out in the finance community thus far? Is investing in food systems transformation considered innovative finance? If so, why? When do we think Wall Street capital, a major component of blended capital, will come into play? How will this transpire? No one knows the future, but if we had to …

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