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From Farm to Fork: The True Cost of Food

Research fields Agroecology
Keywords Modelling
Actual costs
Feeding
Funding CROSS
Duration January 2022 - December 2022
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Researchers Barjolle Dominique (Supervision)
Wyss Rahel (Research Advisory)
Jeangros Laurence (Scientific collaborator)
Petrencu Veronica (Scientific collaborator)

Until today, the food system remains largely neglected despite its massive impacts on climate change, resource use and health. In order to develop sustainable economic models for the entire food value chain, we seek to assess and implement the true cost of food from farm to fork.



The true cost of food, an integrative concept that reflects the cost of the environmental and health impacts of food