FOODCoST, a four-year, Horizon Europe-funded project sought to support the transition towards sustainable food systems by exploring how to calculate and internalize externalities in climate, biodiversity, environmental, social and health along the food value chain. Over the course of the project, partners delivered research and tools aimed at enabling the uptake of TCA by policymakers…
Grows in Rows is a Nigerian-based company working to empower smallholder farmers and use data to design better value chain interventions. They recently undertook a TCA analysis of the emerging avocado value chain in South Kaduna, a savanna region located in Nigeria’s Middle Belt. For this month’s Community Insights interview, Grows in Rows Team Lead,…
This month’s Community Insights interview features the TRUE FOOD initiative in Brazil, founded by Andressa de Mello and Estevan Sartoreli. Last November, TCA Accelerator Director, Jenn Yates, joined the True Food team for a visit to farms using three models of cacao production in the Brazilian state of Bahia, gaining a first-hand look at the…
The Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) has partnered with the TEEB Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme to promote sustainable agriculture and supply chains in India, by supporting businesses to apply the TEEBAgriFood principles. These principles are outlined in the TEEBAgriFood Framework, the foundational framework for True Cost Accounting. The framework describes a four…