Beyond the Food Systems Summit: Linking Recommendations to Action-The True Cost of Food

Eileen T Kennedy; Maximo A Torero; Dariush Mozaffarian; William A Masters; Roy A Steiner; Sheryl L Hendriks; Jamie A Morrison; Kathleen K Merrigan; Shibani A Ghosh; Daniel E Mason-d'Croz

doi:10.1016/j.cdnut.2023.100028

Beyond the Food Systems Summit: Linking Recommendations to Action-The True Cost of Food

Curr Dev Nutr. 2023 Feb 8;7(5):100028. doi: 10.1016/j.cdnut.2023.100028. eCollection 2023 May.

Affiliations

¹ Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, United States.
² Food and Agriculture Organization, Rome, Italy.
³ Rockefeller Foundation, New York, NY, United States.
⁴ Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria, Lynnwood Road, Hatfield, South Africa.
⁵ Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁶ Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States.
⁷ College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States.

Abstract

A transformation of food systems is needed to achieve the 17 Sustainable Development Goals specified in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Recognizing the true costs and benefits of food production and consumption can help guide public policy decisions to effectively transform food systems in support of sustainable healthy diets. A new, expanded framework is presented that allows the quantification of costs and benefits in three domains: health, environmental, and social. The implications for policy makers are discussed. Curr Dev Nutr 2023;x:xx.

Keywords: United Nations Food Systems Summit; agriculture; metrics; nutrition; true cost accounting; true value of food.