The True Cost of Food: An Excerpt from Nourished Planet, Publishing in June 2018

Agriculture affects the environment, health, fair labor, employment, food security, and many other aspects of society. Nourished Planet explores new approaches like true cost accounting, to quantify the true cost of the food system as a way to catalyze change in the current system.

Revealing Food’s Hidden Costs: New Framework for Food and Agriculture

Culminating over a decade of research by dozens of experts, the TEEB for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood) Scientific and Economic Foundations report evaluates the impacts of the value chain, from farm to fork to disposal, including effects on livelihoods, the environment, and health.

Opinion | Valuing the Food System

This piece explores a forthcoming report by the U.N. Environment Initiative on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood).

Linking the Health of People with the Health of the Planet

Alexander Müller focuses on a holistic view of the food system and talks to us about how the full food system puzzle reveals the true cost of cheap food.

Opinion | To Fight Climate Change, Policymakers Should Turn to Food

This piece is part of Food Tank’s work to promote a forthcoming report by the U.N. Environment Initiative on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture & Food (TEEBAgriFood).

People Care When They See the Cost: Evaluating Food Systems

Pavan Sukhdev is the Founder-CEO of a sustainability consultancy group and is on the Steering Committee for TEEBAgriFood’s groundbreaking report on a new framework for valuing and changing our food system.

Can New Report Bring Transparency to the Food System?

Kavita Sharma talks about how a groundbreaking, new TEEBAgriFood Report helps create a more sustainable food system by shifting agriculture and food policy towards human, social and environmental health perspectives.

Enhancing Human and Planetary Health by Improving Agriculture

Dr. Harpinder Sandhu discusses the value of social, human, and natural capital in the agriculture and food systems and how the TEEBAgriFood report guides policymakers to a more sustainable food system.

New Global Report Reveals Crucial Connections Between Food, the Environment, and Human Health

Renowned resource economist Dr. Anil Markandya discusses the methodologies used by TEEBAgriFood Report, and their role in addressing the challenges of monetizing non-economic aspects of the food and agriculture system.

“The Environment is our Economy”

Focusing on food waste, biodiversity, and externalities. Dr. Abdou Tenkouano discusses how the new TEEB AgriFood report optimizes all three.

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