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Think piece series exploring True Cost Accounting

From data and governance, to innovation, trade and human rights – we deep dive into TCA’s monumental potential to drive systemic change, and critically reflect on how it can be applied with people at the heart of its approach.

Think piece series exploring True Cost Accounting

Data strategy for True Cost Accounting

Wei Zhang argues that investing in an open access global True Cost Accounting database will support essential agricultural data collection to inform decision-making at local, national, and transnational levels. Read here.

True Cost Accounting to Assist Good Governance: Opportunities and Challenges

Nadia El Hage Scialabba reflects on vested interests, such as agribusiness influence on research, and how they distort food system governance and priorities. Read here.

The Hidden Power of Trade: How it Became the Elephant in the Room

Ulrich Hoffmann calls for integrating True Cost Accounting into trade policies to balance economic gains with environmental costs and safeguard vulnerable stakeholders like farming communities in global food value chains. Read here.

True Cost Accounting and the need for a rights-based approach in food systems transformation

Tania Eulalia Martinez-Cruz argues that while True Cost Accounting can reveal hidden harms in food systems, its current capital-based framework must adopt a rights-based approach to ensure accountability, justice, and the protection of human rights. Read here.

Fourth Agricultural Revolution: Who bears the costs, who gains the benefits?

In this article Pat Mooney explores the complex trade-offs of the Fourth Agricultural Revolution. Read here.

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