TCA Accelerator
@tcaaccelerator.bsky.social
The TCA Accelerator is a global network advocating for the transition to a just, sustainable, and healthy food system through widespread adoption of True Cost Accounting (TCA).
https://tcaaccelerator.org
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Announcement!
Today, the TCA Accelerator released “The True Cost Accounting Action Agenda: A Roadmap to Healthier, More Equitable, and Sustainable Agrifood Systems” for stakeholder consultation.
Consultation running to Nov 17.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
Today, the TCA Accelerator released “The True Cost Accounting Action Agenda: A Roadmap to Healthier, More Equitable, and Sustainable Agrifood Systems” for stakeholder consultation.
Consultation running to Nov 17.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
⏰ Tomorrow, November 21, is the last day to respond to the stakeholder consultation on the #TrueCostAccounting Action Agenda!
Join other contributors and shape the future of TCA.
Visit our website to access the consultation: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
Join other contributors and shape the future of TCA.
Visit our website to access the consultation: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
November 20, 2025 at 10:20 AM
⏰ Tomorrow, November 21, is the last day to respond to the stakeholder consultation on the #TrueCostAccounting Action Agenda!
Join other contributors and shape the future of TCA.
Visit our website to access the consultation: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
Join other contributors and shape the future of TCA.
Visit our website to access the consultation: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
💡 Now is your chance to shape the TCA Action Agenda.
We launched this stakeholder consultation to ensure the Action Agenda captures a breadth of perspectives on how we can collectively achieve a meaningful food systems transformation.
We look forward to reading your feedback!
We launched this stakeholder consultation to ensure the Action Agenda captures a breadth of perspectives on how we can collectively achieve a meaningful food systems transformation.
We look forward to reading your feedback!
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
💡 Now is your chance to shape the TCA Action Agenda.
We launched this stakeholder consultation to ensure the Action Agenda captures a breadth of perspectives on how we can collectively achieve a meaningful food systems transformation.
We look forward to reading your feedback!
We launched this stakeholder consultation to ensure the Action Agenda captures a breadth of perspectives on how we can collectively achieve a meaningful food systems transformation.
We look forward to reading your feedback!
❓What is the TCA Action Agenda?
It’s a roadmap to mainstream TCA by 2030, drawn from insights gathered over the course of our recent TCA Dialogue Series and Summit.
It’s a roadmap to mainstream TCA by 2030, drawn from insights gathered over the course of our recent TCA Dialogue Series and Summit.
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
❓What is the TCA Action Agenda?
It’s a roadmap to mainstream TCA by 2030, drawn from insights gathered over the course of our recent TCA Dialogue Series and Summit.
It’s a roadmap to mainstream TCA by 2030, drawn from insights gathered over the course of our recent TCA Dialogue Series and Summit.
⏩ DEADLINE EXTENDED ⏩
We have extended the deadline to respond to the #TrueCostAccounting Action Agenda consultation to November 21.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
More information in the 🧵
We have extended the deadline to respond to the #TrueCostAccounting Action Agenda consultation to November 21.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
More information in the 🧵
November 13, 2025 at 4:35 PM
⏩ DEADLINE EXTENDED ⏩
We have extended the deadline to respond to the #TrueCostAccounting Action Agenda consultation to November 21.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
More information in the 🧵
We have extended the deadline to respond to the #TrueCostAccounting Action Agenda consultation to November 21.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
More information in the 🧵
Now is your chance to shape the TCA Action Agenda. We launched this stakeholder consultation to ensure the Action Agenda captures a breadth of perspectives on how we can collectively achieve a meaningful food systems transformation.
💡 We look forward to reading your feedback!
💡 We look forward to reading your feedback!
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Now is your chance to shape the TCA Action Agenda. We launched this stakeholder consultation to ensure the Action Agenda captures a breadth of perspectives on how we can collectively achieve a meaningful food systems transformation.
💡 We look forward to reading your feedback!
💡 We look forward to reading your feedback!
🔎 What is the TCA Action Agenda?
It’s a roadmap to mainstream TCA by 2030, drawn from insights gathered over the course of our recent TCA Dialogue Series and Summit.
It’s a roadmap to mainstream TCA by 2030, drawn from insights gathered over the course of our recent TCA Dialogue Series and Summit.
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
🔎 What is the TCA Action Agenda?
It’s a roadmap to mainstream TCA by 2030, drawn from insights gathered over the course of our recent TCA Dialogue Series and Summit.
It’s a roadmap to mainstream TCA by 2030, drawn from insights gathered over the course of our recent TCA Dialogue Series and Summit.
Announcement!
Today, the TCA Accelerator released “The True Cost Accounting Action Agenda: A Roadmap to Healthier, More Equitable, and Sustainable Agrifood Systems” for stakeholder consultation.
Consultation running to Nov 17.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
Today, the TCA Accelerator released “The True Cost Accounting Action Agenda: A Roadmap to Healthier, More Equitable, and Sustainable Agrifood Systems” for stakeholder consultation.
Consultation running to Nov 17.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
November 4, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Announcement!
Today, the TCA Accelerator released “The True Cost Accounting Action Agenda: A Roadmap to Healthier, More Equitable, and Sustainable Agrifood Systems” for stakeholder consultation.
Consultation running to Nov 17.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
Today, the TCA Accelerator released “The True Cost Accounting Action Agenda: A Roadmap to Healthier, More Equitable, and Sustainable Agrifood Systems” for stakeholder consultation.
Consultation running to Nov 17.
Visit our website to take part: www.tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
Did you catch our newsletter this month? It showcased the latest #TrueCostAccounting updates.
🇧🇷 New TCA initiative in Brazil: TRUE FOOD
🔍 Latest academic papers exploring different TCA applications
🌐 FAO's latest TCA analyses, spanning different countries & commodities
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🇧🇷 New TCA initiative in Brazil: TRUE FOOD
🔍 Latest academic papers exploring different TCA applications
🌐 FAO's latest TCA analyses, spanning different countries & commodities
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
October 27, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Did you catch our newsletter this month? It showcased the latest #TrueCostAccounting updates.
🇧🇷 New TCA initiative in Brazil: TRUE FOOD
🔍 Latest academic papers exploring different TCA applications
🌐 FAO's latest TCA analyses, spanning different countries & commodities
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
🇧🇷 New TCA initiative in Brazil: TRUE FOOD
🔍 Latest academic papers exploring different TCA applications
🌐 FAO's latest TCA analyses, spanning different countries & commodities
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
"We decide on choices thinking about today, and not accounting for tomorrow."
- @maximotorero.bsky.social talking about #TrueCostAccounting at New York Climate Week
Watch the conversation, hosted by @foodtank.bsky.social
📺 www.youtube.com/live/t9QNtTy...
- @maximotorero.bsky.social talking about #TrueCostAccounting at New York Climate Week
Watch the conversation, hosted by @foodtank.bsky.social
📺 www.youtube.com/live/t9QNtTy...
Nourishing People, Planet, and our Future
YouTube video by Food Tank
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October 1, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"We decide on choices thinking about today, and not accounting for tomorrow."
- @maximotorero.bsky.social talking about #TrueCostAccounting at New York Climate Week
Watch the conversation, hosted by @foodtank.bsky.social
📺 www.youtube.com/live/t9QNtTy...
- @maximotorero.bsky.social talking about #TrueCostAccounting at New York Climate Week
Watch the conversation, hosted by @foodtank.bsky.social
📺 www.youtube.com/live/t9QNtTy...
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💬 For #WickedLeeks' ‘WL Meets’ series, journalist, David Burrows, sat down with SFT CEO and organic farmer, Patrick Holden, to discuss financing the agricultural transition, transparency in our food and farming systems and the future of organic.
➡️ wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/wl-...
➡️ wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/wl-...
September 17, 2025 at 11:11 AM
💬 For #WickedLeeks' ‘WL Meets’ series, journalist, David Burrows, sat down with SFT CEO and organic farmer, Patrick Holden, to discuss financing the agricultural transition, transparency in our food and farming systems and the future of organic.
➡️ wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/wl-...
➡️ wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/wl-...
✉️ Our September newsletter is live!
Catch up on top True Cost Accounting stories:
🌐 TCA at the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake
🔜 TABLE's series on change-making in the food systems community
⚖️ Capitals Coalition's holistic framework for business decision-making
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
Catch up on top True Cost Accounting stories:
🌐 TCA at the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake
🔜 TABLE's series on change-making in the food systems community
⚖️ Capitals Coalition's holistic framework for business decision-making
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
September 11, 2025 at 1:46 PM
✉️ Our September newsletter is live!
Catch up on top True Cost Accounting stories:
🌐 TCA at the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake
🔜 TABLE's series on change-making in the food systems community
⚖️ Capitals Coalition's holistic framework for business decision-making
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
Catch up on top True Cost Accounting stories:
🌐 TCA at the UN Food Systems Summit +4 Stocktake
🔜 TABLE's series on change-making in the food systems community
⚖️ Capitals Coalition's holistic framework for business decision-making
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
Tune into NOW Partners Foundation and Rythu Sadhikara Samstha's webinar on their agroecology pilots in Zambia on 18 Sept.
They will present results from their first growing season:
💰 Reduced costs
🥣 Increased food security
🌿 Improved climate resilience
events.futureeconomy.forum/natural-farm...
They will present results from their first growing season:
💰 Reduced costs
🥣 Increased food security
🌿 Improved climate resilience
events.futureeconomy.forum/natural-farm...
NOW + RySS Webinar: Scaling Natural Farming in Zambia
Thursday September 18,
7.00-8.00 San Francisco
10.00-11.00 New York
16.00-17.00 Rome
19.30-20.30 Delhi
events.futureeconomy.forum
September 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Tune into NOW Partners Foundation and Rythu Sadhikara Samstha's webinar on their agroecology pilots in Zambia on 18 Sept.
They will present results from their first growing season:
💰 Reduced costs
🥣 Increased food security
🌿 Improved climate resilience
events.futureeconomy.forum/natural-farm...
They will present results from their first growing season:
💰 Reduced costs
🥣 Increased food security
🌿 Improved climate resilience
events.futureeconomy.forum/natural-farm...
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📢 Why are investors in some of the UK's biggest companies demanding the urgent introduction of mandatory reporting of healthy food sales?
Garance Boullenger of @shareaction.bsky.social goes behind the scenes for our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/3HyUcMX
Garance Boullenger of @shareaction.bsky.social goes behind the scenes for our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/3HyUcMX
August 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
📢 Why are investors in some of the UK's biggest companies demanding the urgent introduction of mandatory reporting of healthy food sales?
Garance Boullenger of @shareaction.bsky.social goes behind the scenes for our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/3HyUcMX
Garance Boullenger of @shareaction.bsky.social goes behind the scenes for our latest podcast.
🎧 Listen in full: bit.ly/3HyUcMX
Balancing trade-offs and maximizing coherence in policymaking is often discussed in theory, but rarely explained in practice.
@gainhealth.org Diagnostic Toolkit allows users to explore coherence across health, environmental, social, and economic categories.
www.gainhealth.org/policy-coher...
@gainhealth.org Diagnostic Toolkit allows users to explore coherence across health, environmental, social, and economic categories.
www.gainhealth.org/policy-coher...
Diagnosing Food Systems Policy Coherence: A Toolkit Supporting the design of more coherent food policies
www.gainhealth.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:17 AM
Balancing trade-offs and maximizing coherence in policymaking is often discussed in theory, but rarely explained in practice.
@gainhealth.org Diagnostic Toolkit allows users to explore coherence across health, environmental, social, and economic categories.
www.gainhealth.org/policy-coher...
@gainhealth.org Diagnostic Toolkit allows users to explore coherence across health, environmental, social, and economic categories.
www.gainhealth.org/policy-coher...
🗞️ Our latest newsletter is live!
In this edition, you will find:
📺 Recordings from the True Cost Accounting Global Summit
💡 An article from Lauren Baker & Amanda Jekums reflecting on 10 years of TCA progress
💬 A Summit dispatch from award winning journalist Tom Philpott
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In this edition, you will find:
📺 Recordings from the True Cost Accounting Global Summit
💡 An article from Lauren Baker & Amanda Jekums reflecting on 10 years of TCA progress
💬 A Summit dispatch from award winning journalist Tom Philpott
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
July 15, 2025 at 11:32 AM
🗞️ Our latest newsletter is live!
In this edition, you will find:
📺 Recordings from the True Cost Accounting Global Summit
💡 An article from Lauren Baker & Amanda Jekums reflecting on 10 years of TCA progress
💬 A Summit dispatch from award winning journalist Tom Philpott
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
In this edition, you will find:
📺 Recordings from the True Cost Accounting Global Summit
💡 An article from Lauren Baker & Amanda Jekums reflecting on 10 years of TCA progress
💬 A Summit dispatch from award winning journalist Tom Philpott
mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
Textile Exchange is urging fashion brands to adopt #TrueCostAccounting!
💰 Better materials often come at a premium.
⚠️ "Brands must stop externalizing those costs onto producers and instead build supportive sourcing models."
Read the article: fashionunited.uk/news/fashion...
💰 Better materials often come at a premium.
⚠️ "Brands must stop externalizing those costs onto producers and instead build supportive sourcing models."
Read the article: fashionunited.uk/news/fashion...
Textile Exchange recalibrates for 2030 with a sharper focus on systems change
Textile Exchange recalibrates its 2030 strategy, focusing on systems change and accountability to reduce fashion's environmental impact.
fashionunited.uk
July 8, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Textile Exchange is urging fashion brands to adopt #TrueCostAccounting!
💰 Better materials often come at a premium.
⚠️ "Brands must stop externalizing those costs onto producers and instead build supportive sourcing models."
Read the article: fashionunited.uk/news/fashion...
💰 Better materials often come at a premium.
⚠️ "Brands must stop externalizing those costs onto producers and instead build supportive sourcing models."
Read the article: fashionunited.uk/news/fashion...
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⏰“GDP is fake news.” It’s time for a more accurate picture of growth & progress.
Our Managing Director @alexandermueller.bsky.social gave opening remarks at the True Cost Accounting Global Summit in April. Watch his speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-F4...
Highlights below 🧵👇
Our Managing Director @alexandermueller.bsky.social gave opening remarks at the True Cost Accounting Global Summit in April. Watch his speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-F4...
Highlights below 🧵👇
Alexander Müller: Opening Remarks
YouTube video by TCA Accelerator
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July 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
⏰“GDP is fake news.” It’s time for a more accurate picture of growth & progress.
Our Managing Director @alexandermueller.bsky.social gave opening remarks at the True Cost Accounting Global Summit in April. Watch his speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-F4...
Highlights below 🧵👇
Our Managing Director @alexandermueller.bsky.social gave opening remarks at the True Cost Accounting Global Summit in April. Watch his speech here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-F4...
Highlights below 🧵👇
Read @planettracker.bsky.social's latest guide for investors on health and global food systems:
planet-tracker.org/wp-content/u...
planet-tracker.org/wp-content/u...
planet-tracker.org
June 25, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Read @planettracker.bsky.social's latest guide for investors on health and global food systems:
planet-tracker.org/wp-content/u...
planet-tracker.org/wp-content/u...
Human and planetary health are two sides of the same coin.
Investors can work to restore & improve both by embracing strategies aligned with sustainable, long term value creation:
🥗 Enhancing the affordability of healthier options
❌ Eliminating routine use of antibiotics
🍬 Reduce reliance on UPFs
Investors can work to restore & improve both by embracing strategies aligned with sustainable, long term value creation:
🥗 Enhancing the affordability of healthier options
❌ Eliminating routine use of antibiotics
🍬 Reduce reliance on UPFs
June 25, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Human and planetary health are two sides of the same coin.
Investors can work to restore & improve both by embracing strategies aligned with sustainable, long term value creation:
🥗 Enhancing the affordability of healthier options
❌ Eliminating routine use of antibiotics
🍬 Reduce reliance on UPFs
Investors can work to restore & improve both by embracing strategies aligned with sustainable, long term value creation:
🥗 Enhancing the affordability of healthier options
❌ Eliminating routine use of antibiotics
🍬 Reduce reliance on UPFs
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“#Power is often absent from conversations about food systems.”— Olivier De Schutter, @ipes-food.org
These words resonated at our recent Global Convening on #FoodSystemsTransformation.
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These words resonated at our recent Global Convening on #FoodSystemsTransformation.
Explore more powerful quotes ⬇️
📩 Subscribe to hear more from the convening—coming soon: bit.ly/GA_subscribe
June 20, 2025 at 8:19 AM
“#Power is often absent from conversations about food systems.”— Olivier De Schutter, @ipes-food.org
These words resonated at our recent Global Convening on #FoodSystemsTransformation.
Explore more powerful quotes ⬇️
📩 Subscribe to hear more from the convening—coming soon: bit.ly/GA_subscribe
These words resonated at our recent Global Convening on #FoodSystemsTransformation.
Explore more powerful quotes ⬇️
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Global Farm Metric have released their updated framework - GFM 2.0.
GFM helps farmers adopt whole-farm sustainability through holistic measurement and tracking.
You can read more about the trials and framework in three short reports from Global Farm Metric: www.globalfarmmetric.org/framework/
GFM helps farmers adopt whole-farm sustainability through holistic measurement and tracking.
You can read more about the trials and framework in three short reports from Global Farm Metric: www.globalfarmmetric.org/framework/
June 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Global Farm Metric have released their updated framework - GFM 2.0.
GFM helps farmers adopt whole-farm sustainability through holistic measurement and tracking.
You can read more about the trials and framework in three short reports from Global Farm Metric: www.globalfarmmetric.org/framework/
GFM helps farmers adopt whole-farm sustainability through holistic measurement and tracking.
You can read more about the trials and framework in three short reports from Global Farm Metric: www.globalfarmmetric.org/framework/
Lauren Baker & Amanda Jekums, @futureoffood.bsky.social, reflect on our True Cost Accounting Global Summit, held at @fao.org in April.
Key themes:
⏩ Moving from development to implementation
💬 Effective communication to decision-makers
💡 Equity in data collection & use
foodtank.com/news/2025/05...
Key themes:
⏩ Moving from development to implementation
💬 Effective communication to decision-makers
💡 Equity in data collection & use
foodtank.com/news/2025/05...
True Cost Accounting Has Come a Long Way
True Cost Accounting is a powerful tool to understand the costs and benefits of food production, distribution, and consumption.
foodtank.com
June 5, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Lauren Baker & Amanda Jekums, @futureoffood.bsky.social, reflect on our True Cost Accounting Global Summit, held at @fao.org in April.
Key themes:
⏩ Moving from development to implementation
💬 Effective communication to decision-makers
💡 Equity in data collection & use
foodtank.com/news/2025/05...
Key themes:
⏩ Moving from development to implementation
💬 Effective communication to decision-makers
💡 Equity in data collection & use
foodtank.com/news/2025/05...
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
We have a golden opportunity to change the food system now - and restore nature, soils, and our health.
Kenneth Keavey's TED Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzYi...
We have a golden opportunity to change the food system now - and restore nature, soils, and our health.
Kenneth Keavey's TED Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzYi...
What is the true cost of cheap food? | Kenneth Keavey | TEDxTUDublin
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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May 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed individuals can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
We have a golden opportunity to change the food system now - and restore nature, soils, and our health.
Kenneth Keavey's TED Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzYi...
We have a golden opportunity to change the food system now - and restore nature, soils, and our health.
Kenneth Keavey's TED Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzYi...
Read Stuart Gillespie's article: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Read the 2024 State of Food and Agriculture report: openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...
Read the 2024 State of Food and Agriculture report: openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...
It’s time to stop the great food heist powered by big business. That means taxation, regulation and healthy school meals | Stuart Gillespie
The global food system has been captured by a few rapacious companies that profit from public ill-health. We need a radical overhaul
www.theguardian.com
May 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Read Stuart Gillespie's article: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Read the 2024 State of Food and Agriculture report: openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...
Read the 2024 State of Food and Agriculture report: openknowledge.fao.org/server/api/c...
To address these costs, FAO outlined policy interventions - similar to those described above.
💡 True Cost Accounting is the tool that can illuminate trade offs in designing and implementing these policies, ensuring benefits and costs are fairly distributed.
💡 True Cost Accounting is the tool that can illuminate trade offs in designing and implementing these policies, ensuring benefits and costs are fairly distributed.
May 23, 2025 at 10:45 AM
To address these costs, FAO outlined policy interventions - similar to those described above.
💡 True Cost Accounting is the tool that can illuminate trade offs in designing and implementing these policies, ensuring benefits and costs are fairly distributed.
💡 True Cost Accounting is the tool that can illuminate trade offs in designing and implementing these policies, ensuring benefits and costs are fairly distributed.