ABSTRACT
Measurement needs to be sensitive to the goals of food systems transformation, and appropriate to the relevant communities and component parts, including the farmers, growers, abattoirs, packhouses, processors, financial institutions, distributors, and retailers all contributing to its overall health. A number of areas where the approach can impact. If at present it is the general public-communities and taxpayers-who are paying for the negative externalities in our food system, the transformations required for our food systems to meet the synergistic needs of humans and nature will require those in investment and finance to understand and address such costs. In the end, this “cheap” hamburger is extremely expensive, but most of the cumulative cost is borne by all of us as a global community. A central challenge is that the uninformed choices that we as consumers, as policymakers, and businesses make perpetuate the problem.
