⏩ DEADLINE EXTENDED ⏩ We have extended the deadline to respond to the #TrueCostAccounting Action Agenda consultation to November 21. Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda More information in the 🧵

Announcement! Today, the TCA Accelerator released “The True Cost Accounting Action Agenda: A Roadmap to Healthier, More Equitable, and Sustainable Agrifood Systems” for stakeholder consultation. Consultation running to Nov 17. Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda

Did you catch our newsletter this month? It showcased the latest #TrueCostAccounting updates. 🇧🇷 New TCA initiative in Brazil: TRUE FOOD 🔍 Latest academic papers exploring different TCA applications 🌐 FAO's latest TCA analyses, spanning different countries & commodities mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...

"We decide on choices thinking about today, and not accounting for tomorrow." - @maximotorero.bsky.social talking about #TrueCostAccounting at New York Climate Week Watch the conversation, hosted by @foodtank.bsky.social 📺 www.youtube.com/live/t9QNtTy...

💬 For #WickedLeeks' ‘WL Meets’ series, journalist, David Burrows, sat down with SFT CEO and organic farmer, Patrick Holden, to discuss financing the agricultural transition, transparency in our food and farming systems and the future of organic. ➡️ wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/wl-...

✉️ Our September newsletter is live! Catch up on top True Cost Accounting stories: 🌐 TCA at the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake 🔜 TABLE's series on change-making in the food systems community ⚖️ Capitals Coalition's holistic framework for business decision-making mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...

Tune into NOW Partners Foundation and Rythu Sadhikara Samstha's webinar on their agroecology pilots in Zambia on 18 Sept. They will present results from their first growing season: 💰 Reduced costs 🥣 Increased food security 🌿 Improved climate resilience events.futureeconomy.forum/natural-farm...

📢 Why are investors in some of the UK's biggest companies demanding the urgent introduction of mandatory reporting of healthy food sales? Garance Boullenger of @shareaction.bsky.social goes behind the scenes for our latest podcast. 🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/3HyUcMX

Balancing trade-offs and maximizing coherence in policymaking is often discussed in theory, but rarely explained in practice. @‪gainhealth.org‬ Diagnostic Toolkit allows users to explore coherence across health, environmental, social, and economic categories. www.gainhealth.org/policy-coher...

🗞️ Our latest newsletter is live! In this edition, you will find: 📺 Recordings from the True Cost Accounting Global Summit 💡 An article from Lauren Baker & Amanda Jekums reflecting on 10 years of TCA progress 💬 A Summit dispatch from award winning journalist Tom Philpott mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...

Textile Exchange is urging fashion brands to adopt #TrueCostAccounting! 💰 Better materials often come at a premium. ⚠️ "Brands must stop externalizing those costs onto producers and instead build supportive sourcing models." Read the article: fashionunited.uk/news/fashion...

⏰“GDP is fake news.” It’s time for a more accurate picture of growth & progress. Our Managing Director @alexandermueller.bsky.social gave opening remarks at the True Cost Accounting Global Summit in April. Watch his speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-F4... Highlights below 🧵👇

Human and planetary health are two sides of the same coin. Investors can work to restore & improve both by embracing strategies aligned with sustainable, long term value creation: 🥗 Enhancing the affordability of healthier options ❌ Eliminating routine use of antibiotics 🍬 Reduce reliance on UPFs

“#Power is often absent from conversations about food systems.”— Olivier De Schutter, @ipes-food.org These words resonated at our recent Global Convening on #FoodSystemsTransformation. Explore more powerful quotes ⬇️ 📩 Subscribe to hear more from the convening—coming soon: bit.ly/GA_subscribe

Global Farm Metric have released their updated framework - GFM 2.0. GFM helps farmers adopt whole-farm sustainability through holistic measurement and tracking. You can read more about the trials and framework in three short reports from Global Farm Metric: www.globalfarmmetric.org/framework/

Lauren Baker & Amanda Jekums, @futureoffood.bsky.social, reflect on our True Cost Accounting Global Summit, held at @fao.org in April. Key themes: ⏩ Moving from development to implementation 💬 Effective communication to decision-makers 💡 Equity in data collection & use foodtank.com/news/2025/05...

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has." We have a golden opportunity to change the food system now - and restore nature, soils, and our health. Kenneth Keavey's TED Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzYi...

"Our global food system is not nourishing us. The good news is we now know why, and we know enough to turn things around." Dr Stuart Gillespie describes how our current food system is driving malnutrition and environmental degradation, and highlights countries already taking action.

Did you know that biodiversity is essential for food security and nutrition? Here are 5️⃣ reasons why biodiversity matters for our agrifood systems and why we must act now to protect it. 👇 #ForNature #BiodiversityDay

Voices from the #TCAGlobalSummit2025 🍔 "When I wrote Fast Food Nation, 25 years ago, I didn't realize I was doing a True Cost Accounting of the fast food industry and its impact, not only on my country, but the world." 🌍 - Eric Schlosser, Writer

Voices from #TCAGlobalSummit2025 - Hauwa'u Hamisu Haruna ⚠️ True Cost Accounting is not just about uncovering hidden costs. 💡 TCA also illuminates hidden benefits, and in the world of finance, this can mean telling the story of investments' positive impacts beyond financial returns.

Voices from the #TCAGlobalSummit2025 Wondering how True Cost Accounting might be relevant to you? We are sharing videos from our diverse community, with members explaining why TCA is important to their work. 💡Next up, Marta Echavarria, from Ecodecision!

📺 J. Robin Moon tells us why she's excited to attend the #TCAGlobalSummit2025, and about the Summit dinner, organised by World Farmers Markets Coalition and Fondazione Campagna Amica. We will be posting more videos from our TCA Global Summit, hosted by @fao.org. Stay tuned!

Voices from #TCAGlobalSummit2025 Rayan Kassem from @sdgbenchmarks.bsky.social tells us: 💡 Why he's excited to be at the Summit 🏙️ How to make the business case for True Cost Accounting To find out more, watch the video 👇

We are so grateful to World Farmers Markets Coalition and Fondazione Campagna Amica for providing our wonderful dinner for the TCA Global Summit.

Brooke Gentile from Organic Association of Kentucky and Janet Maro from Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania in discussion! Brooke and Janet reminded us of the importance of supporting and including farmers, and potential to transform degraded landscapes through farming. #TCAGlobalSummit2025

"TCA studies aren't an end in themselves - they should be used to advocate for change." Swati Renduchintala speaking at #TCAGlobalSummit2025, hosted by @fao.org #scalingtca

@jennxer.bsky.social opens the True Cost Accounting Global Summit, hosted by @fao.org! As Jenn said in her opening remarks: "This is our moment to align, commit, and act. The future of food systems depends on it." #TCAGlobalSummit2025 #scalingtca

The TCA Accelerator team has landed in Rome! We are excited to see attendees at our #TCAGlobalSummit2025 tomorrow, hosted by @fao.org We will be taking stock of TCA achievements so far, and exploring opportunities and solutions to dramatically scale TCA by 2030. Stay tuned for highlights!

🚨Tomorrow (April 1) is the deadline for registrations for our TCA Global Summit! At the Summit, you will: 🤝 Connect with the global TCA community 🔉 Hear from inspiring TCA leaders 🎯 Take part in interactive workshops on TCA scaling opportunities ...and more! 🔗 summit.tcaaccelerator.org

How can food systems advocates/communicators combat the zombie narrative that industrial agriculture alone can solve food insecurity and feed the world's population? Read the blog post summarizing the final workshop in our TCA Dialogue Series 👉 👉 tcaaccelerator.org/killing-the-...

From today's #DailyNewsDigest📰: "The key to unlocking the barrier of dishonest pricing and the wrong kind of food – which is what most of us are eating – is a better-informed public, and the best way to achieve that is to get people onto farms." www.specialityfoodmagazine.com/news/patrick...

💡 $10 trillion in hidden costs—our #FoodSystems are more expensive than we think. #TrueCostAccounting reveals these hidden impacts & drives real change. Taking place next month, the TCA Global Summit will convene global leaders to fast-track TCA implementation by 2030. Find out more 👇

⏰ Registration for our TCA Global Summit closes tomorrow! This gathering of global leaders will serve as a watershed moment for efforts to transform agrifood systems. Space is filling up quickly! Head to our website to express interest in attending: summit.tcaaccelerator.org

“We need to be like mycelia - making underground networks, making action happen despite policy, not thanks to policy” How can we work together to mainstream True Cost Accounting? Read our latest blog post on our Aligning Forces Dialogue. tcaaccelerator.org/strengthenin...

“We can make money and do good for the planet, and I don’t know why we have such difficulty talking about it.” On Jan 15, we held our Dialogue on Finance & Investment in TCA. Read this blog post to explore the barriers and solutions discussed by our participants. tcaaccelerator.org/you-cant-hav...

TCA is gaining traction as a robust tool to guide food system decision-making. It’s time to take this approach mainstream. Scaling Implementation: A True Cost Accounting Global Summit 📅 April 15-16, 2025 📍Hosted by UN Food and Agriculture Organization Learn more: summit.tcaaccelerator.org

🚨“Hunger persists because we allow injustice to endure. Food isn’t scarce but many people can’t access it.” 🥣The answer to world #hunger isn’t factory farming or tech fixes: it’s confronting #power & #inequality. IPES-Food’s statement on food access👇 ipes-food.org/only-politic...

"We need to project an image of abundance and possibility" Thank you to everyone who attended our Communications and Advocacy Dialogue! Expressions of interest in our True Cost Accounting Global Summit are now open! It will take place on 15-16 April 2025 in Rome, Italy 👉 lnkd.in/eH7Wc4ZD

“We started with food because it’s so universal. Not just as a need but as a grounding cultural and family force,” said Michael Prate, who spearheaded the program in its initial stages. “It’s where people come together to build relationships.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Our top-read Insights post of 2024 focused on "how food and farming will determine the fate of planet Earth". If you missed it the first time, check it out now! drawdown.org/insights/how...

How can we ensure that our mission to upscale TCA empowers all stakeholders: farmers, researchers, and decision makers, from grassroots organizers to national policymakers? Read our latest blog post, summarizing the discussion from our TCA Evaluations workshop: tcaaccelerator.org/true-cost-ac...

Thank you to the participants of our Scaling Implementation: Finance & Investment workshop! It was a fascinating discussion on how to encourage uptake of True Cost Accounting in finance and investment, in order to deliver outcomes that go beyond purely financial returns.

Factory farms are our best hope for feeding the planet, according to Michael Grunwald in the NYT (Dec 15 2024). “These systems are “efficient,” only if you ignore their true costs — to our health, environment, climate and more”, Anna Lappé responds. Read more: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/04/o...

🗞️ Read our newsletter to explore the top #TrueCostAccounting stories of 2024! Read/Subscribe: mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat... AND later this month we will share details of three interactive events, part of our TCA Dialogue Series. We want to hear from you on how to scale implementation of TCA by 2030!

“If we are able to show at the board and the company level, basically, the financial materiality of doing all of this, then we're good to go” Read our latest blog post summarizing our workshop on #TrueCostAccounting and the private sector. 🔗 tcaaccelerator.org/voices-from-...

#ClimateChange, #NatureLoss and food insecurity are all inextricably linked and dealing with them as separate issues won't work, a major report by @ipbes.bsky.social has warned. #NexusAssessment bbc.com/news/article...

Thank you to the participants of our latest Scaling Implementation workshop! Key discussion points: 🌿 Collecting farm level data 🔎 What do we need to measure in TCA? 😵‍💫 Overcoming methods madness! 💰 Limits of monetary valuation We will be publishing a blog summarizing the workshop soon!

Interested in learning more about #TrueCostAccounting? TMG think tank have published three blogs, each focused on a different challenge facing #TCA. 🗄️ Open access data challenges 🔎 Vested interests affecting governance ✊ The need for rights-based approaches to TCA Links in comments below👇

#COP29 has finished. Countries must submit NDC updates by Feb 25. This a crucial moment to build #TrueCostAccounting into existing policies/commitments. According to #SOFA2024, TCA can: 📋 Leverage familiar methodologies 🪢 Enhance policy coherence ✅ Minimize disruption to institutional structures