Financing the Farm Transition: Capital, Control & Inequality
- How much of transition finance represents new capital vs a reallocation of existing flows, and what is needed to unlock additional investment into agriculture?
- How are bank lending conditions and government schemes shaping which farming practices are financeable and which are not?
- Can corporate procurement standards and retailer sustainability scorecards become a genuine pathway into transition finance for farm businesses?
- Who has access to transition capital and what financing models are emerging to support smallholders, tenant farmers, and frontier market producers?
- Do current financing structures accelerate the transition or concentrate its benefits in operations already positioned to change?