Food systems shape health outcomes and investments in nutrition return economic benefits of $23 on every dollar spent. Despite this, nutrition is not part of mainstream investment strategies. ATNi (Access to Nutrition initiative) is closing that gap by connecting the investment community with the tools, data, and evidence needed to direct capital toward companies producing healthier food. At the centre of this effort is Capital4Nutrition, ATNi’s dedicated workstream that translates best-in-class benchmarking methodology into actionable intelligence for investors. Rather than leaving nutrition impact to guesswork, Capital4Nutrition gives asset managers, impact investors, and financial institutions a credible, standardised way to assess how food and beverage companies perform against international nutrition benchmarks, and to engage those companies on closing the gaps. ATNi’s data underpins collaborative investor engagements worldwide, helping shareholders push portfolio companies to align their product portfolios and practices with national and international standards for healthy food. For investors just starting to build a nutrition-focused strategy, ATNi has published the Impact Investing Guide, a hands-on resource for investors, donors and other stakeholders who want to move from intention to execution. It lays out concrete entry points for integrating nutrition into investment strategy, screening, and engagement. Furthermore, a functioning ecosystem is needed to scale investments in Nutrition. The question is: how can we move from today’s fragmented, donor-dependent funding landscape to a cohesive nutrition finance market? That is the focus of the report from the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) Movement and ATNi, Financing Nutrition at Scale: Capital Market Strategies for Investors. It makes the investment case for nutrition, examines the role private capital must play in unlocking scale, identifies the structural barriers holding financing back, and sets out pathways for mobilising capital at the level the challenge demands. Together, these three initiatives give the investment community a full toolkit: a rigorous methodology to identify what “good” looks like, a guide to build a strategy, and a roadmap to scale capital deployment across the system. For investors concerned about nutrition as both a health imperative and a market opportunity, ATNi offers the evidence, data, and practical frameworks to act with confidence and with measurable impact.

Read more: Capital4Nutrition & Impact Investing Guide 2026

– Author: Hammed Jimoh, Partnerships Manager, ATNi (Access to Nutrition initiative)

– This contribution is brought to you by ATNi (Access to Nutrition initiative), a valued Founding Partner of Building Bridges.