Financing the Farm Transition: Capital, Control & Inequality
- Is 'transition finance' genuinely new capital or existing flows relabelled under sustainability criteria?
- How are bank lending conditions and government schemes shaping which farming practices are financeable and which are not?
- Are corporate procurement standards and retailer sustainability scorecards a coherent investment signal or an unaccountable source of pressure on farm businesses?
- Who has access to transition capital and what structural barriers continue to exclude smallholders, tenant farmers, and frontier market producers?
- Do current financing structures accelerate the transition or concentrate its benefits in operations already positioned to change?