TCA Archives - True Cost Accounting Accelerator

Voices from the Field: True Cost Accounting and the Private Sector

TCABy Rosanna Crawford December 17, 2024

“It’s a critical time to double down on some of the methods, tools and processes by which we can help businesses maintain this ambition, keep this holistic lens, and really reduce some of that burden…I’m really hopeful that TCA offers an opportunity for the private sector to be good advocates alongside governments and consumers, and create that enabling space and enabling environment that we all need to meet our sustainability goals”.

Scaling Up True Cost Accounting in the Face of Polycrisis: Global Policy and Action

TCABy Rosanna Crawford October 28, 2024

2024 is a significant year for many reasons. High numbers of regional and national elections have contributed to a constantly shifting political landscape, with the US election still to come next week. At the same time, temperature records have been broken around the world, and reports on the state of biodiversity loss are increasingly dire.

Measuring What Matters – How True Cost Accounting Can Convey the Full Value of Farmers Markets

TCABy Rosanna Crawford September 25, 2024

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.

Our Food is Driving Climate Change – Now Countries Must Live Up to Their COP28 Promises

TCABy Jenn Yates December 22, 2023

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.

Opinion: Scaling True Cost Accounting Can Transform Our Food Systems

TCABy Jenn Yates November 22, 2023

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.

Media Advisory: New UN report shows how true cost accounting can transform our food systems – and lives – for the better

TCABy Jenn Yates November 6, 2023

The United Nations’ State of Food and Agriculture report shows that global agriculture and food systems cause hidden environmental, social and health costs amounting to at least $10 trillion each year – nearly 10% of global GDP.

True Cost Accounting: A Lens for Shifting Food System Perspectives and Practices

TCABy gpadmin December 9, 2022

By Dr. Harpinder Sandhu, Federation University Australia. Food systems transformation requires us to understand the full-scale impacts and dependencies of current food systems, whether in considering the way food is produced, to examining the broader impacts of trade, processing, distribution and consumption on planetary and human health.

Tabling Food at COP Offers Win-Win for Climate, Nutrition and Farmers

TCABy truecostaccell December 1, 2022

By Jenn Yates, TCA Accelerator Director. Following COP 27, Jenn Yates shares her highlights from the session she moderated on the true costs and impacts of food systems.

Notes from the Field: True Cost Accounting to Accelerate Food Systems Transformation

TCABy truecostaccell September 13, 2022

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.

True Cost Accounting for Resilient and Equitable Food Systems

TCABy gpadmin March 31, 2022

By Urvashi Rangan, Chair, TCA Accelerator Steering Committee.
In light of ongoing conflict and crisis, food systems transformation is needed now more than ever. The work to build stronger, more resilient, and equitable food systems has gained even greater urgency as a result of global conflict, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.