Making the positive impacts of organic agriculture visible

Last week, our team at the True Price Foundation together with Impact Institute presented a paper on the benefits of organic agriculture written for the Robin Food Coalition, a group of front-running organisations in the Dutch organic food space.

Organic agriculture and its benefits are often undervalued in reporting frameworks, and policy instruments. This is largely because current assessment tools fail to reflect its true value for biodiversity, soil health, water quality, and nutrition. In the case of organic agriculture, this means recognising the positive externalities that current pricing systems and reporting tools fail to capture. Without this, truly sustainable farming practices remain undervalued and under-incentivised.

Mainstream sustainability assessment and reporting frameworks such as CSRD and The Science-Based-Target Network have large room for improvement when it comes to capturing the benefits of organic agriculture.

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