This article is adapted from remarks delivered by TCA Accelerator Director Jenn Yates at the World Farmers Market Coalition (WFMC) General Assembly on True Cost Accounting as a tool to more effectively convey the full value of farmers markets, revealing their multiple benefits for community, health, and nature.
For the first time, leaders at COP28 officially recognized the huge impact the food on our plates has on the world around us. It’s time global leaders took action to maximize the benefits of our food system for people and planet. Adele Jones and Jenn Yates set out the role True Cost Accounting can play in realizing this promise.
Op-Ed in Devex by Alexander Mueller (TMG Think Tank) and Jenn Yates (TCA Accelerator) discusses FAO’s 2023 State of Food And Agriculture report and the need for true cost accounting to transform global food systems and maximize value for people and the planet.
By Jenn Yates, TCA Accelerator Director. Billed as one of humanity’s crowning achievements, the world has succeeded in producing seemingly limitless quantities of a certain food, feed, and fuel ingredients.