🎧 Follow the Money: Investor power and the Future of Food

Episode summary: 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,…