This report outlines the true cost of food, which includes the impacts on our health, the environment, biodiversity, livelihoods, and much more. With this new analysis, governments, advocates, corporations, and individuals are better equipped to catalyze the change needed to develop a truly nourishing, equitable, and sustainable food system in the United States.
"The way Americans eat and produce food costs nearly $2 trillion in health and environmental expenditures alone-and that cost disproportionately burdens communities of color." the statistics they provide are very alarming !
Rainforest Alliance is working worldwide with famers not just to reduce impact (sustainability), but to achieve regeneration in areas of biodiversity; waterways; climate-smart agriculture; integrated soil, weed, and pest management; and improved productivity and livelihoods.