True Cost Accounting for Food: Balancing the Scale

ISBN-13: 9780367506858 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 278 str.

Barbara Gemmill-Herren; Lauren E. Baker; Paula A. Daniels

Opis

This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system.

Spis treści

Section One: The Power and Potential of True Cost Accounting  1. From Practice to Policy: New Metrics for the 21st Century  2. Cotton in Egypt: Assisting Decision-Makers to Understand Costs and Benefits  3. Upstream, Downstream: Accounting for the Environmental and Social Value of Water in the Andes  Section Two: Thinking Systemically  4. Methods and Frameworks: The Tools to Assess Externalities  5. Health Impacts: The Hidden Costs of Industrial Food Systems  Section Three: From the Field  6. Harmonizing the Measurement of On-Farm Impacts  7. Incentives to Change: The Experience of the Organic Sector  8. Transforming the Maize Treadmill: Understanding Social, Economic, and Ecological Impacts  9. Fostering Healthy Soils in California: Farmer Motivations and Barriers  Section Four: For the Public Good  10. The Real Cost of Unhealthy Diets  11. True Cost Principles in Public Policy: How Schools and Local Government Bring Value to Procurement  12. Embedding TCA Within U.S. Regulatory Decision-Making  13. International Policy Opportunities for True Cost Accounting in Food and Agriculture  Section Five: Through the Value Chain  14. The Business of TCA: Assessing Risks and Dependencies Along the Supply Chain  15. Investing in the True Value of Sustainable Food Systems  Section Six: To the Table  16. Trade-Offs: Comparing Meat and the Alternatives  17. Dining Out: The True Cost of Poor Wages  18. True Price Store: Guiding Consumers