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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 7d

"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...

Nourishing People, Planet, and our Future

YouTube video by Food Tank

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Sustainable Food Trust @susfoodtrust.bsky.social · 22d

💬 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-...

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 27d

✉️ 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...

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · Sep 8

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...

NOW + RySS Webinar: Scaling Natural Farming in Zambia

Thursday September 18, 7.00-8.00 San Francisco 10.00-11.00 New York 16.00-17.00 Rome 19.30-20.30 Delhi

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The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social · Aug 29

📢 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

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

Diagnosing Food Systems Policy Coherence: A Toolkit Supporting the design of more coherent food policies

www.gainhealth.org

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · Jul 15

🗞️ 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

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · Jul 8

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...

Textile Exchange recalibrates for 2030 with a sharper focus on systems change

Textile Exchange recalibrates its 2030 strategy, focusing on systems change and accountability to reduce fashion's environmental impact.

fashionunited.uk

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True Cost Accounting for Food Systems Transformation @ TMG @truecostaccounting.bsky.social · Jul 1

⏰“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 🧵👇

Alexander Müller: Opening Remarks

YouTube video by TCA Accelerator

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · Jun 25

Read @planettracker.bsky.social's latest guide for investors on health and global food systems:
planet-tracker.org/wp-content/u...

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · Jun 25

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

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Global Alliance for the Future of Food @futureoffood.bsky.social · Jun 20

“#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

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · Jun 24

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/

TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · Jun 5

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...

True Cost Accounting Has Come a Long Way

True Cost Accounting is a powerful tool to understand the costs and benefits of food production, distribution, and consumption.

foodtank.com

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 29

"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...

What is the true cost of cheap food? | Kenneth Keavey | TEDxTUDublin

YouTube video by TEDx Talks

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 23

Read Stuart Gillespie's article: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Read the 2024 State of Food and Agriculture report: openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...

It’s time to stop the great food heist powered by big business. That means taxation, regulation and healthy school meals | Stuart Gillespie

The global food system has been captured by a few rapacious companies that profit from public ill-health. We need a radical overhaul

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 23

To address these costs, FAO outlined policy interventions - similar to those described above.

💡 True Cost Accounting is the tool that can illuminate trade offs in designing and implementing these policies, ensuring benefits and costs are fairly distributed.

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 23

In their 2024 State of Food and Agriculture report, @fao.org revealed that the hidden costs of our food system amount to $11 trillion.

🚨 A staggering 70% of these costs are from unhealthy diets related to non-communicable diseases.

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 23

💰 In 2023, Colombia became the first country in the world to introduce a tax on ultra processed foods.
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Colombia passes ambitious ‘junk food law’ to tackle lifestyle diseases

The Latin American country is one of the first in the world to introduce a health tax targeting ultra-processed foods

www.theguardian.com

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 23

📜 Chile leads the world on regulation restricting the marketing of junk food to children.
healthpolicy-watch.news/chiles-compr...

Chile’s Comprehensive Food Policy Offers Global Lesson In Tackling Unhealthy Foods - Health Policy Watch

Intense, pervasive marketing by food and beverage companies is central to profit-driven strategies to increase the intake of ultra-processed foods, and

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 23

We need to transform the food system. The governments already stepping up to do so:
🍽️ The Brazilian government funds healthy meals for millions of school pupils, a third of which must be bought from farmers who practice organic, low carbon farming.
redraes.org/en/brazil-ce...

Brazil celebrates 70 years of public school feeding policies – Raes

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 23

"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.

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · May 21

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

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 13

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

TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · May 1

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.