Walton Stephanie, Mehrabi Zia, Fanzo Jessica, Caldecott Ben
Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Better Planet Laboratory, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA.
Nat Food. 2025 May;6(5):440-445. doi: 10.1038/s43016-025-01170-7. Epub 2025 May 22.
As the necessity of transitioning to food systems that are healthy and environmentally sustainable grows increasingly urgent, food systems seem to be locked into delivering negative outcomes. One driver of this lock-in is that some of the changes from transitioning food systems would result in asset stranding for firms and financial institutions. In this Perspective we provide examples of where asset stranding can occur in food systems and offer solutions for navigating the political economy of these stranded assets. By proactively attending to the stranded assets problem, it may be possible to break out of financial lock-in in food systems.
随着向健康且环境可持续的粮食系统转型的必要性变得日益紧迫，粮食系统似乎陷入了产生负面结果的困境。这种锁定的一个驱动因素是，粮食系统转型带来的一些变化会导致企业和金融机构的资产搁浅。在这篇观点文章中，我们给出了粮食系统中可能出现资产搁浅的例子，并提供了解决这些搁浅资产政治经济学问题的方案。通过积极关注搁浅资产问题，或许有可能打破粮食系统中的金融锁定。
