War exposed our food system. Now what?
As a new war rages in the Middle East and West Asia, the full costs of conflicts like this are becoming…
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NEWS & INSIGHTS
London Climate Action Week 2026 Reflections
For those of you who didn’t experience it firsthand, you likely heard that London Climate Action Week (LCAW) took place amidst…
FOODCoST, EU: June 2026 Newsletter Interview
FOODCoST, a four-year, Horizon Europe-funded project sought to support the transition towards sustainable food systems by exploring how to calculate and…
Grows in Rows Ltd, Nigeria: May 2026 Newsletter Interview
rows in Rows is a Nigerian-based company working to empower smallholder farmers and use data to design better value chain interventions.
TRUE FOOD, Brazil: March 2026 Newsletter Interview
This month’s Community Insights interview features the TRUE FOOD initiative in Brazil, founded by Andressa de Mello and Estevan Sartoreli.
Collaboration is key to realising sustainable food and agricultural systems
Collaboration is key to realising sustainable food and agricultural systems Pavan Sukhdev Founder & CEO, GIST Impact Founder, O’land Wilderness Lodges…
Centre for Responsible Business: January 2026 Newsletter Interview
The Centre for Responsible Business (CRB) has partnered with the TEEB Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme to promote sustainable…
True Cost Accounting Comes of Age in Rome
In April 2025, in an auditorium nestled in the austere, labyrinthian halls of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s headquarters…
Killing the Zombie Argument: A Different Food System is Possible
The body of TCA case studies grows each year. These studies have demonstrated food systems’ hidden costs to people and nature,…
Strengthening Alliances: how can we work together to mainstream True Cost Accounting?
Since the historic Rio Declaration in 1992, successive leaders have signed onto ambitious emissions reduction and environmental goals. Global targets have…
You can’t have a free lunch and send the bill to Mother Nature: TCA in Finance and Investment
This January, over 140 Nobel and World Food Prize Laureates signed an open letter for “planet friendly ‘moonshot’ efforts” to avert…
True Cost Accounting Evaluations: the nuts and bolts of mainstreaming TCA
“We have reached a now or never moment for upscaling TCA.” In 2018, the TEEBAgriFood Evaluation Framework established a common architecture…