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The Food Programme: Follow the Money: Investor power and the Future of Food

Money Power: How Investors are Shaping the Food System

Follow the Money: Investor power and the Future of Food

BBC Radio 4 - The Food Programme, Follow the Money: Investor power and the Future of Food

Dan Saladino meets investors using trillions of dollars to shape the global food system.

Trillions of dollars, including our savings and pension funds, are invested in the global food system. Dan Saladino finds out how this money is being used to shape  future food.

Dan Saladino finds out how groups of influential investors are using the trillions of dollars they control to shape the future of food. 
It's argued that it is their decisions, not those of governments which will determine if we can solve the biggest challenges we're facing, from climate change to obesity.  

These funds, including our savings and pensions, are invested in the global food system. This money makes it possible for fast-food chains to expand, for supermarkets to grow and farming businesses to survive. How that money is allocated, and which food businesses are now seen as carrying too much risk, is an increasingly important factor in deciding how we will farm and eat in the future.   

Dan Saladino meets Jeremy Coller, a Chief Investment Officer who controls billions of dollars of assets about the power of investors. In 2016, Coller has set up the FAIRR Initiative (Farm Animal Investment Risk and Return), a source of data and analysis of business performance in the meat industry. Coller, a vegetarian, argues that future global risks such as pandemics and climate change are being increased by factory farming. 

Instead of waiting for governments to act, he believes networks of investors, and their decisions on meat based businesses (from processors to burger chains), entirely based on risk, will transform the food system.     

Produced and presented by Dan Saladino.

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