True cost accounting for food : : balancing for scale / / edited by Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Lauren E. Baker, and Paula A. Daniels.
"This book explains how True Cost Accounting is an effective tool we can use to address the pervasive imbalance in our food system."
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| Place / Publishing House: | Oxon : : Routledge,, 2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (288 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The urgency of now / Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Lauren E. Baker and Paula A. Daniels
- Section 1. The power and potential of true cost accounting: From practice to policy: new metrics for the 21st century / Nadia El-Hage Scialabba and Carl Obst
- Cotton in Egypt: assisting decision-makers to understand costs and benefits / Helmy Abouleish, Thoraya Seada and Nadine Greiss
- Upstream, downstream: accounting for the environmental and social value of water in the Andes / Marta Echavarria and Margaret Stern
- Section 2. Thinking systematically: Methods and frameworks: the tools to assess externalities / Harpinder Sandhu, Courtney Regan, Saiqa Perveen and Vatsal Patel
- Health impacts: the hidden costs of industrial food systems / Cecilia Rocha, Emile Frison and Nick Jacobs
- Section 3. From the field: Harmonizing the measurement of on-farm impacts / Patrick Holden and Adele Jones
- Incentive to change: the experience of the organic sector / Gabor Figecky, Louise Luttikholt, Frank Eyhorn, Adrian Muller, Christian Schader, and Federica Varini
- Transforming the maize treadmill: understanding social, economic, and ecological impacts / Francisca Acevedo Gasman, Lauren E. Baker, Mauricio R. Bellon, Caroline Burgeff, Alicia Mastretta-Yanes, Rainer Nerger, Harpinder Sandhu, Esmeralda G. Urquiza-Haas, Stephanie White and Gyde Wollesen
- Foster healthy soils in California: farmer motivations and barriers / Joanna Ory and Alastair Iles
- Section 4. For the public good: The real cost of unhealthy diets / Sarah Reinhardt, Rebecca Boehm and Ricardo Salvador
- True cost principles in public policy: how schools and local government bring value to procurement / Paula A. Daniels
- Embedding TCA within US regulatory decision-making / Kathleen A. Merrigan
- International policy opportunities for true cost accounting in food and agriculture / Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Zoltan Kalman and Alexander Muller
- Section 5. Through the value chain: The business of TCA: assessing risks and dependencies along the supply chain / Tobias Bandel, Jan Kopper, Laura Mervelskemper, Christopher Bonnet and Arno Scheepens
- Investing in the true value of sustainable food systems / Tim Crosby, Jennifer Astone and Rex Raymond
- Section 6. To the table: Trade-offs: comparing meat and the alternatives / Kathleen A. Merrigan
- Dining out: the true cost of poor wages / Saru Kayaraman and Julia Sebastian
- True price store: guiding consumers / Adrian De Groot Ruiz
- Conclusion: Mobilizing the power and potential of true cost accounting / Nadia El-Hage Scialabba, Carl Obst, Kathleen A. Merrigan and Alexander Muller.