India, Dec. 18 -- Regardless of how much we spend at the supermarket's checkout, society is paying a massive, invisible bill in food systems' hidden costs

The Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition (GAIN), True Price Foundation (TPF), Netherlands Food Partnership (NFP), and Access to Nutrition Initiative (ATNI) have recently released a landmark three-part Review Series on 'True Cost Assessment Methods for Quantifying the Multi-dimensional Impacts of Food.'

Regardless of how much we spend at the supermarket's checkout, society is paying a massive, invisible bill in food systems' hidden costs (or externalities). FAO's State of Food and Agriculture 2024 report quantifies these impacts at over $11 trillion annually; however, our comprehensi...