GREEN INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.15544/mts.2022.19Keywords:
sustainable agriculture, green investment financing, grant, investment fund, rural developmentAbstract
The post-COVID society faces a measure of challenges in Agri-Food sector, including the growing importance for food quality and protection. In particular, the policy makers and economists within agricultural sector concern the growing importance of sustainability criteria, when development is able to focus on the needs of both current and future generations. Particularly, resent trends prove the increasing need of green investment in agriculture to support its sustainability. Thereby, there is an urgent need to consider the research problem of disclosing the green investment as a driver for sustainable agriculture. The paper presents the evidence on sustainable agriculture features and green investment instruments. The study is performed through the analysis of green investment approaches in the context of agriculture and financial instruments to boost green investments reproduction. The results section of the paper is focused on the current potential to strengthen green investments, supporting sustainable agriculture in Europe. In particular, European agricultural sector faces the need to implement green investments’ practice, boosting particular measures of agriculture and its sustainability.