True costs of food production in Kenya and Vietnam
Food prices are going up, but the numbers alone do not tell the whole story of how much food truly costs. Even as prices soar, no one pays true food costs when social and environmental externalities are accounted for. This article presents the results of a true cost accounting exercise in Kenya and Vietnam undertaken by the CGIAR Nature-Positive Solutions Initiative. Social externalities were relatively more important in Kenya and environmental ones in Vietnam.
