Sustainable Food and Agriculture

We aim to accelerate the transition to more sustainable agricultural systems and consumption patterns by financing businesses across the supply chain that safeguard nature, promote fairness and transparency, improve livelihoods of farmers and encourage mindful consumption.

Today's global challenges

We consume more natural resources than the earth can provide. This global overuse, driven by a short-term consumerist mindset, leads to natural resource depletion, such as declining soil fertility and a loss of biodiversity, and decreased resilience in the supply chains of food and other consumer products.

In the coming years, agriculture will face an unprecedented confluence of pressures, including a substantial increase in the global population, intensifying need and competition for increasingly scarce land and water, and the impact of climate change. This will affect all life.

These challenges call for a much-needed transition to sustainable production and consumption. This urgency is also anchored in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); if the global population reaches 9.6 billion by 2050, the equivalent of almost three planets will be required to sustain current lifestyles.

Impact goals

Why invest?

We invest in companies across the supply chain in several countries, from (agricultural) production and processing to wholesaling and retailing. They are all key actors in transforming the food and farming systems as well as in empowering people to make sustainable consumption choices.

The open-end structure of our funds and the diversity of financial instruments are tuned to the needs of the companies we invest in. This allows us to build lasting relationships and support companies over the long term.

A diverse portfolio of three funds - Triodos Organic Growth Fund, Triodos Groenfonds, and Triodos Sustainable Trade Fund - with a total of EUR 211 million invested in 212 companies across 22 countries. The strategy is managed by an experienced investment team with a deep understanding of the dynamics in the sector.

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Investment approach

Long-term mission-aligned private capital

Triodos Organic Growth Fund provides long-term mission aligned private capital to leading European organic food and sustainable consumer businesses, thereby safeguarding their independence, entrepreneurship and mission. The fund also holds active board membership;

Innovative trade finance

Triodos Sustainable Trade Fund provides loans that assist farmer cooperatives and other agricultural companies in Latin America, Africa and Asia in accessing international markets, thereby enabling fair and immediate payment to small-scale farmers while stimulating sustainable agriculture;

Long-term debt

Both Triodos Sustainable Trade Fund and Triodos Groenfonds offer long-term debt to organic agricultural businesses – both in emerging economies and in the Netherlands, respectively.

Foundations and partnerships

Meet the leaders of the Sustainable Food and Agriculture team

Riëlla Hollander

Director Sustainable Food and Agriculture

Riëlla Hollander is Director Sustainable Food and Agriculture. She joined Triodos Investment Management in May 2013 as a Fund Manager and in June 2017, she gained broader responsibility for Triodos IM’s impact strategy of Sustainable Food and Agriculture. Prior to joining Triodos IM, Riëlla Hollander gained over ten years of acquisition finance experience at Lloyds Bank and was active in M&A Advisory (three years) and Corporate Banking (four years). She holds an MBA from Leuven University.

Jurriën Appers

Fund Manager Triodos Organic Growth Fund

Jurriën Appers is the Fund Manager of Triodos Organic Growth Fund. Jurriën has been a Senior Investment Manager for the fund since 2012 and fulfils an active board position at three portfolio companies: Naturfrisk in Denmark and Marqt and DO-IT in The Netherlands. Jurriën joined Triodos Bank in 2004 as a Senior Relationship Manager at the business banking department where he developed, amongst others, Triodos Bank’s sustainable real estate portfolio.

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