Europe’s agri-food system is under profound structural stress. Decades of misaligned subsidies, fragmented funding, and short-term finance have locked farmers and food businesses into unsustainable practices, while the capital needed to support a genuine transition remains scattered, inaccessible, or simply absent. Together with the TransCap Initiative, Metabolic is working to change that by co-designing an Agrifood Just Transition Fund (AJTF) – a finance infrastructure that coordinates capital flows across scales to accelerate a just and systemic transformation of Europe’s food system.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.metabolic.nl/projects/finance-food-europe/