True cost accounting for food : balancing for scale / edited by Barbara Gemmill-Herren, Lauren E. Baker, and Paula A. Daniels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gemmill-Herren, Barbara.

Contributor:

Gemmill-Herren, Barbara, editor.

Baker, Lauren E., editor.

Daniels, Paula A., editor.

Series:

Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment Series

Routledge Studies in Food, Society, and the Environment

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--Social aspects.

Food.

Food prices.

Cost accounting.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages)

Edition:

1 ed.

Place of Publication:

2021.

Oxon : Routledge, 2021

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

ISBN:

9781003050803

1003050808

9781000389982

1000389987

OCLC:

1226073045

Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003050803