Publications

True cost accounting applications for agrifood systems policymakers

2025

Read the background paper to the FAO report "The State of Food and Agriculture 2023" about TCA applications for agrifood systems.

Making the positive impacts of organic agriculture visible

2025

New paper reveals the hidden environmental and health benefits of organic agriculture, and why they're often overlooked.

Child Labour

2025

The key methodological aspects to measure and value the social cost of child labour.

True costs of food: Valuing health impacts of food consumption

2025

This publication presents a method to estimate the health impacts of food consumption — a key component in determining the true price of food.

True Pricing in Food Retail and Food Service

2024

We are excited to announce the release of True Pricing in Food Retail and Food Service: A Blueprint, a guide designed to help food retailers, food service providers, and others in the food industry understand and implement true pricing.

Monetisation factors for True Pricing

2023

Monetisation factors are key to true cost accounting and true pricing. They are the monetary values we use for true pricing of CO2 emissions, water use, soil degradation, land use change, underpayment and labour and human rights violations.

True Price Assessment method for agri-food products

2023

The True price assessment method for agri-food products contains the key steps to assess the true price of agri-food products and their value chains. More specifically, the document provides modelling guidance and requirements for scoping, data and reporting.

Living income

2022

Impact-specific module for true price assessment contains the key methodological aspects to measure and value the impact of agri-food products and their value chains for the income insufficiency of smallholder farmers and other small entrepreneurs.