FOODCoST: FOOD Costing and Internalisation of Externalities for System Transition

确保可持续的粮食系统需要大幅降低环境和健康成本，同时使所有人都能负担得起健康和可持续的粮食。在目前的粮食系统中，许多有害食品的成本和健康食品的好处都是外部化的，即没有反映在市场价格中，因此也没有反映在粮食价值链行为者的决策中。解决外部性问题意味着确定外部性的当前成本，并重新定义食品价格（真实定价），使其在日常实践中内在化。决策者、企业和粮食系统的其他行为者缺乏足够的信息和知识，无法将外部因素内在化，从而实现可持续的粮食系统。FOODCost通过设计有效和可持续战略路线图来评估和内化食品外部性来应对这一挑战。FOODCoST提供方法和数据库来衡量和评估积极和消极的外部性，提出了一种改变游戏规则和协调的方法来计算气候，生物多样性，环境，社会和健康外部性的价值沿着基于经济成本原则的食品价值链。FOODCost提供了一个分析工具箱，通过政策和商业战略来实验，分析和导航外部性的内部化，为政策制定者和企业提供工具和指导，以评估其内部化行动的可持续性影响。FOODCoST强调了不同价值链、国家和地区真实定价的挑战多样性，并在11个不同的案例研究中共同创建、测试和验证了估值和内部化方法，从而能够测试、验证和丰富这些方法，从而过渡到可持续的粮食系统。该项目将以多行为体方法为基础，确保与整个粮食系统（陆地和海洋）的所有相关行为体进行持续对话。

Ensuring sustainable food systems requires vastly reducing its environmental and health costs while making healthy and sustainable food affordable to all. In current food systems many of the costs of harmful foods and benefits of healthful foods are externalized, i.e. are not reflected in market prices and therefore not in decision making of actors in food value chains. Solving the externality problems means to determine current costs of externalities and redefine food prices (true pricing) to internalize them in daily practice. Policy makers, businesses and other actors in the food system, lack sufficient information and knowledge to internalize externalities to achieve a sustainable food system. FOODCoST responds to this challenge by designing a roadmap for effective and sustainable strategies to assess and internalise food externalities. FOODCoST provides approaches and databases to measure and value positive and negative externalities, proposing a game-changing and harmonised approach to calculate the value of climate, biodiversity, environmental, social and health externalities along the food value chain based on economic cost principles. FOODCoST provides an analytical toolbox to experiment, analyse, and navigate the internalisation of externalities through policies and business strategies providing tools and guidance to policy makers and businesses to assess the sustainability impact of their internalisation actions. FOODCoST emphasises the diversity of challenges of true pricing in different value chains and countries and regions, and cocreates, tests and validates the valuation and internalisation approaches in 11 diverse case studies enabling to test, validate and enrich the approaches in order to transit towards a sustainable food system. The project will be based on a multi-actor approach that will ensure a continuous dialogue with all relevant actors across the whole food system (land and sea).