Externalities in the food sector
20/09/2024
USD 20 trillion per year, almost 20% of world GDP, is the cost of negative externalities of the global food system, including impacts not directly perceived by their generators (Sutton, Lotsch & Prasann, 2024).
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Hendriks, S., A. D. G. Ruiz, M. H. Acosta, H. Baumers, P. Galgani, D. Mason-D’Croz, C. Godde, et al. 2021. “The True Cost and True Price of Food.” Paper prepared for the UN Food Systems Summit 2021, New York, September 23. https://sc-fss2021.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/UNFSS_true_cost_of_food.pdf.