Funding the Future: What It Takes to Transform Brazil’s Food System
Brazil’s unique natural assets and global role in food production make it an essential player in transforming global food systems. Together with the other initiatives that the country is taking, transforming food systems requires a clear focus on aligning financial resources in support of the goal of more healthy, sustainable and just food systems.
This report points to concrete steps that different actors, whose expenditures and investments shape the Brazilian food system, can take to ensure that public and private resources are deployed at scale to support the food system transformation. It emphasizes the role that the public sector can play in providing a clear and predictable policy environment to catalyze private investment in the transformation.
About this document and consultation process
The 2025 EAT-Lancet Commission presents a global Planetary Health Diet that is healthy, just, and safe for both people and planet. In preparation for the launch of the 2025 report, EAT hosted Action Dialogues to engage with stakeholders in the finance sector and co-create solutions for transforming food systems, in support of the Commission’s findings. This report aims to translate the outcomes of the global dialogue series to country-level and context-specific recommendations in Brazil.
Acknowledgements
These dialogues were convened by EAT, co-hosted with the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI), and supported by the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) in October and November 2024. Work on this report would not have been possible without the support of the Food and Land Use Coalition (FOLU) and the assistance of the FOLU Brazil Country Platform. This paper was led by EAT; the contents do not necessarily reflect the views of the EAT-Lancet Commission.