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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). tcaaccelerator.org scalingimplementation.tcaaccelerato…

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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Don't miss the next True Cost Accounting Community of Practice convening, online on 15 September! Join us as we launch the next chapter of the TCA Community of Practice & advance its ambitious roadmap to scale True Cost Accounting, the TCA Action Agenda. Registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Don't miss the next True Cost Accounting Community of Practice convening, online on 15 September! Join us as we launch the next chapter of the TCA Community of Practice & advance its ambitious roadmap to scale True Cost Accounting, the TCA Action Agenda. Registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
“Hidden costs are hidden, but this doesn’t mean they aren’t real. We are already paying for them, or future generations will pay for them”. 💬 Olivia Riemer reflects on @truecostaccounting.bsky.social's work as part of the PLAN'EAT project. www.youtube.com/watch?v=O0it... #TrueCostAccounting
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What True Cost Accounting Brought to PLAN’EAT | Podcast with Olivia Riemer, TMG
In this PLAN’EAT podcast episode, we speak with Olivia Riemer from @tmgthinktankforsustainabil509 about the role of True Cost Accounting in the PLAN’EAT project. TMG brought this key concept into…
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
The next True Cost Accounting Community of Practice convening will take place online on 15 Sept! Join us as we launch the next chapter of the TCA Community of Practice & advance its ambitious roadmap to scale True Cost Accounting, the TCA Action Agenda. Registration: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
🧵 “Food systems sit at the intersection of virtually every major challenge philanthropic capital is trying to solve. True cost accounting makes that intersection legible and actionable.” – @annalappe.bsky.social and @jennxer.bsky.social
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Our July newsletter is out! In this edition: 💡 An op-ed by Anna Lappé and Jenn Yates on the the importance of true cost accounting (TCA) for resilient food systems. 🇬🇧 TCA Accelerator reflections on London Climate Action Week 2026. 🍲 The latest TCA news from around the world. 🔗 lnkd.in/euc4YZ6H
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
This month's newsletter is out! Dive into the latest TCA news: 🏆 A prize for a pioneering natural farming project 💡 A TCA study on Nigeria's emerging avocado value chain 🇪🇺 A new TCA position paper Plus an interview with the EU-funded FOODCoST project! 🔗 mailchi.mp/tcaaccelerat...
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
The TCA Action Agenda was developed by the community, and for the community. Rosinah Mbenya from PELUM Kenya reflects on this milestone and what it means for her work. tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Our March newsletter is out! Featuring: 💡An interview with co-founder of Brazilian initiative TRUE FOOD 🇺🇬 A TCA workshop for Ugandan policymakers - read the report 🔍 New TCA research on Kenya's green bean value chain, the economic burden of unsustainable malnutrition, & a new review of TCA methods
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The TCA Action Agenda was developed by the community, and for the community. PhD researcher Henri Contor reflects on how the Action Agenda can enable better decision-making across diverse sectors. tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
💡 With the right investment, we can unlock healthier, more sustainable and equitable food systems in the next four years. The TCA Action Agenda sets out how the TCA community can articulate the business case to change food systems for the better. Learn more: actionagenda.tcaaccelerator.org
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
The TCA Action Agenda was developed by the community, and for the community. Mika’il Haruna Daya reflects on this milestone moment for #TrueCostAccounting. tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
How communication and advocacy can accelerate our path to a better food system 🚀 🍽️ With the right communications and advocacy strategies, we can unlock the full potential of True Cost Accounting and accelerate food systems transformation. Learn more: tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Did you miss our TCA Action Agenda launch webinar? Three food systems leaders reflected on this milestone moment for #TrueCostAccounting 🚀 📺 Watch the recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=yllA... Explore the Action Agenda and find out how to get involved: actionagenda.tcaaccelerator.org
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
⚠️ We are at a tipping point. UN agencies, governments and more already recognize the potential of #TrueCostAccounting. Now with the new Action Agenda, momentum is building to mainstream this approach and transform how global food systems are valued. Find out more 👇
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
📢 It’s time for a paradigm shift in decision making. Saskia Sanders explains why the new TCA Action Agenda matters in her work. Explore the Action Agenda and find out how you can get involved: tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda #TrueCostAccounting
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Momentum is building to mainstream #TrueCostAccounting. TCA Accelerator Steering Committee Chair Adele Jones explains why the Action Agenda is so important (with the help of an assistant). Learn more and get involved: tcaaccelerator.org/actionagenda
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
🧵This is TCA’s moment. Today, we are launching the TCA Action Agenda: a roadmap to reimagine food systems by 2030 through the concerted and coherent application of #TrueCostAccounting. Learn how the Action Agenda can kickstart action on food systems transformation 👇
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Join us for the True Cost Accounting Action Agenda Launch Webinar! 📅 Thursday, Feb 26 ⏰ 11am EST | 5pm CET To mark this milestone, we are hosting a conversation with food systems leaders and exploring how the Agenda will create new collaboration opportunities. Register: zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
⏰ 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
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
⏩ 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 🧵
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
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
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
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...
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
"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...
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Nourishing People, Planet, and our Future
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Sustainable Food Trust @susfoodtrust.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
💬 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-...
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
✉️ 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...
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
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...
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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
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The Food Foundation @foodfoundation.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
📢 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
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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...
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Diagnosing Food Systems Policy Coherence: A Toolkit Supporting the design of more coherent food policies
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
🗞️ 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...
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
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...
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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.
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True Cost Accounting for Food Systems Transformation @ TMG @truecostaccounting.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
⏰“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 🧵👇
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Alexander Müller: Opening Remarks
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
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
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Global Alliance for the Future of Food @futureoffood.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
“#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
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
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/
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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...
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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.
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"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...
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What is the true cost of cheap food? | Kenneth Keavey | TEDxTUDublin
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Our global food system is not nourishing us. The good news is we now know why, and we know enough to turn things around." Dr Stuart Gillespie describes how our current food system is driving malnutrition and environmental degradation, and highlights countries already taking action.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations @fao.org · 21/05/2025
Did you know that biodiversity is essential for food security and nutrition? Here are 5️⃣ reasons why biodiversity matters for our agrifood systems and why we must act now to protect it. 👇 #ForNature #BiodiversityDay
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Voices from the #TCAGlobalSummit2025 🍔 "When I wrote Fast Food Nation, 25 years ago, I didn't realize I was doing a True Cost Accounting of the fast food industry and its impact, not only on my country, but the world." 🌍 - Eric Schlosser, Writer
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Voices from #TCAGlobalSummit2025 - Hauwa'u Hamisu Haruna ⚠️ True Cost Accounting is not just about uncovering hidden costs. 💡 TCA also illuminates hidden benefits, and in the world of finance, this can mean telling the story of investments' positive impacts beyond financial returns.
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Voices from the #TCAGlobalSummit2025 Wondering how True Cost Accounting might be relevant to you? We are sharing videos from our diverse community, with members explaining why TCA is important to their work. 💡Next up, Marta Echavarria, from Ecodecision!
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
📺 J. Robin Moon tells us why she's excited to attend the #TCAGlobalSummit2025, and about the Summit dinner, organised by World Farmers Markets Coalition and Fondazione Campagna Amica. We will be posting more videos from our TCA Global Summit, hosted by @fao.org. Stay tuned!
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Voices from #TCAGlobalSummit2025 Rayan Kassem from @sdgbenchmarks.bsky.social tells us: 💡 Why he's excited to be at the Summit 🏙️ How to make the business case for True Cost Accounting To find out more, watch the video 👇
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
We are so grateful to World Farmers Markets Coalition and Fondazione Campagna Amica for providing our wonderful dinner for the TCA Global Summit.
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Brooke Gentile from Organic Association of Kentucky and Janet Maro from Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania in discussion! Brooke and Janet reminded us of the importance of supporting and including farmers, and potential to transform degraded landscapes through farming. #TCAGlobalSummit2025
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"TCA studies aren't an end in themselves - they should be used to advocate for change." Swati Renduchintala speaking at #TCAGlobalSummit2025, hosted by @fao.org #scalingtca
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
@jennxer.bsky.social opens the True Cost Accounting Global Summit, hosted by @fao.org! As Jenn said in her opening remarks: "This is our moment to align, commit, and act. The future of food systems depends on it." #TCAGlobalSummit2025 #scalingtca
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
The TCA Accelerator team has landed in Rome! We are excited to see attendees at our #TCAGlobalSummit2025 tomorrow, hosted by @fao.org We will be taking stock of TCA achievements so far, and exploring opportunities and solutions to dramatically scale TCA by 2030. Stay tuned for highlights!
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TCA Accelerator @tcaaccelerator.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
🚨Tomorrow (April 1) is the deadline for registrations for our TCA Global Summit! At the Summit, you will: 🤝 Connect with the global TCA community 🔉 Hear from inspiring TCA leaders 🎯 Take part in interactive workshops on TCA scaling opportunities ...and more! 🔗 summit.tcaaccelerator.org
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