#Food-systems

It’s a slow-news holiday week so I’m going to use it to catch up on reports.  The first: FAO: The State of Food and Agriculture 2024: Value-Driven Transformation of Agrifood Systems FAO uses true cost accounting (TCA) to analyze global food systems. ➔ By improving on the hidden costs

IPES Food (International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems) has a new report,  Food From Somewhere: Building food security and resilience through territorial markets. The report argues that territorial food systems are better able to promote food security than industrial food

I was interested to see this report and the academic analysis on which it is based—both from the Food Systems Countdown Initiative. The academic analysis is extremely complicated and difficult to get through.  This initiative is highly ambitious.  It developed a set of 50 (!) indicators and

I received an e-mailed news release from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) about its latest report. The press release headline: Hidden costs of global agrifood systems worth at least $10 trillion.  154-country study makes case for true cost accounting to guide policy. Our current

The prolific International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems has produced another must-see report: Here’s what it’s about: Corporate influence over food system governance has become the new normal: the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit exposed the ability of multinational agri-food