
Agriculture is a major driver of biodiversity loss, ecosystem degradation and human-driven climate change. Most food systems today neither provide sustainable livelihoods nor sufficient and healthy diets. At TMG, we recognise the urgent need to transform our food systems to support the resilience of our ecosystems, ensure equitable access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food, and provide secure livelihoods for farmers.
Drawing on in-depth scientific knowledge, and our long-standing experience in the governance of food systems, we advise and shape agricultural policy reforms at national and regional level. In partnership with leading food producers and financial institutions in Europe, we seek to build broad alliances to co-design economic and financial systems that account for the harmful environmental and social costs of current food systems, opening up avenues for their transformation.
Digitalization

Exploring the role of digitalization and social innovation for inclusive and resilient food systems.
While there are many successful development initiatives in the African region, entrenched structural inequalities and power asymmetries continue to lock out millions of people from taking charge of their own development aspirations.
Food Systems Transformation

Exploring equitable transformation pathways for a sustainable future of food systems
The global food system is broken – it is unsustainable, unhealthy, unjust, and in dire need of transformation. Our food systems contribute to climate change, biodiversity loss, unhealthy diets, hunger, and social inequality. There is need for fundamental changes to the way our food is grown, processed, distributed, and consumed. This aspiration is at the heart of the shift from the old agricultural productivity paradigm towards food systems, in line with the concept of planetary boundaries and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
True Cost Accounting in Agri-food Systems

Developing integrated accounting standards for the food and farming sector
Standard accounting and economic evaluation systems do not take full account of all four capitals − produced, natural, social and human − that are involved in the production, processing, marketing and consumption of food, and related services. This means that businesses and other actors are often not held liable for the negative externalities of their activities. Instead, the costs are often borne by society, and the environment. Examples include paying more for clean water due to the cost of removing pesticides from water sources, or higher prices for food due to reduced harvests from poorly managed soils.

The role of True Cost Accounting for sustainable economies and food systems

No food security without sustainable economic systems

No food security without sustainable economic systems

From Data to Action: Six principles for inclusive digitalization towards food systems transformation

Governance of Food Systems Transformation in Kenya – many answers and further questions

The release of the State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA2023) flagship report

Report
The role of true cost accounting in guiding agrifood businesses and investments towards sustainability
Background paper for The State of Food and Agriculture 2023
Written by Olivia Riemer, Tavseef Mairaj Shah, Alexander Müller
Published on Nov 6, 2023
Declaration
Joint Statement on the Implementation of the CFS Policy Recommendations on Food and Nutrition Security Data
This Joint Statement is the output of a 3-day forum entitled "From Data to Action" presenting six key recommendations to guide the implementation of the CFS Policy Recommendations on FSN Data for the progressive realization of the Right to Food.
Written by TMG Research and Partners
Published on Oct 26, 2023
Event Programme
Programme: From Data to Action
Forum on Inclusive Digitalization for Food Systems Transformation & Progress towards the SDGs
Written by SEWOH Lab Team
Published on Oct 12, 2023
Article
Tropentag 2023: Competing pathways for equitable food systems transformation — trade-offs and synergies
An article in Rural 21, the International Journal for Rural Development, about the Tropentag 2023 and how agricultural technology and management can cut billions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions.
Written by Harry Hoffmann
Published on Oct 10, 2023

Info Brief
TMG's work in Kenya - Towards inclusive and climate resilient food systems
TMG's areas of support in Kenya
Written by TMG Research
Published on Sep 11, 2023

Report
Joint Conclusions
Key messages on food systems transformation from the expert workshop hosted by TMG Research in Rome, June 2023
Written by CLIF Team
Published on Jul 12, 2023
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