True Cost Accounting Comes of Age in Rome

Written by Tom Philpott Tom is senior research associate at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, co-host of Unconfined Podcast, and author of Perilous Bounty. In April 2025, in an auditorium nestled in the austere, labyrinthian halls of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s headquarters in Rome, a group of 170 researchers,…