FOODCoST: FOOD Costing and Internalisation of Externalities for System Transition

Project Information

FOODCoST

Grant agreement ID: 101060481

DOI

10.3030/101060481

EC signature date 7 June 2022

Start date 1 June 2022

End date 31 May 2026

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 7 355 092,50

EU contribution

€ 7 355 091,50

Coordinated by

STICHTING WAGENINGEN RESEARCH
Netherlands

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (6)

Report on policies with internalised externalities at the EU, national and regional levels

Report on policies with internalised externalities at the EU, national and regional levels.

Mapping of the barriers

Mapping of the barriers.

Report on dissemination and communication activities

Report on dissemination and communication activities.

Overview of innovative value chain and business models and strategies to internalise externalities

Overview of innovative value chain and business models and strategies to internalise externalities.

Scenarios combining policy recommendations and business strategies to internalise externalities

Scenarios combining policy recommendations and business strategies to internalise externalities.

Lessons learnt, recommendations and action points from the CoP

Lessons learnt, recommendations and action points from the CoP.

Data Management Plan (2)

Data Management Plan
Data Management Plan - update

Other (3)

Practice Abstracts - Batch 1

Practice Abstracts – Batch 1

FOODCoST Business and Value chain INTERNALISATION tools

FOODCoST Business and Value chainINTERNALISATION tools

FOODCoST Policy modelling framework for internalisation

FOODCoST Policy modelling framework for internalisation.

Data sets, microdata, etc (1)

EU-global database on externality costs including an open-source dataset of national external cost values

EU-global database on externality costs including an open-source dataset of national external cost values.

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project website

Publications

Monographic books (3)

Refining national true cost accounting for agrifood systems

Published in: 2024
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16962319

Hidden costs of agrifood systems and recent trends from 2016 to 2023

Published in: 2023
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16779932

Hidden costs of agrifood systems

Published in: 2024
Publisher: FAO
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16962179

Conference proceedings (8)

True Cost Accounting for sustainable livestock production

Author(s): Van Wagenberg, C., Van Galen, M., Vissers, L., & Bunte, F.
Published in: 2024
Publisher: European Federation of Animal Science

Soziale externe Kosten: Ein Framework zur Monetarisierung von Tierwohl zur Berechnung wahrer Lebensmittelpreise

Author(s): Rasidovic A, Oebel B, Stein L, Michalke A & Gaugler T
Published in: 16. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, 2023
Publisher: Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau

Nitrogen fertilizer application of commercial soybean farms and its impact on soybean yield and nutritional composition in Hungary. In: Sustainable Research of Sustainable Development

Author(s): Johann Vollmann · Marjana Vasiljević · Leopold Rittler · Jegor Miladinović · Donal Murphy-Bokern.
Published in: Sustainable Research of Sustainable Development. Abstracts. World Soybean Research Conference 11, 2023
Publisher: Sustainable Research of Sustainable Development
DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.17588.42885

Wahre Kosten Experiment im deutschen Einzelhandel: Wissenschaftliche Auswertung der Kampagne mit PENNY

Author(s): Stein, L., Oebel, B., Andreae, T., Michalke, A., Semken, Ch., Gaugler, T.
Published in: 17. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, 2024
Publisher: Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau

Auf dem Weg zu wahren Preisen im Lebensmitteleinzelhandel: Die Mehrwertsteuer als Instrument zur Agrar-Transformation

Author(s): Michalke, A., Stein, L., Oebel, B., Kriegel, J., Gaugler, T.
Published in: 16. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, 2023
Publisher: Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau

Entwicklung eines Frameworks zur Monetarisierung externer Gesundheitskosten von Lebensmitteln

Author(s): Seidel, F., Oebel, B., Stein, L., Michalke, A., Gaugler, T.
Published in: 16. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, 2023
Publisher: Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau

Nitrogen fertilizer application of commercial soybean farms and its impact on soybean yield and nutritional composition in Hungary

Author(s): Ildiko Edit Tikasz– Zsuzsa Molnar– Edina Varga
Published in: World Soybean Research Conference, Issue WSRC11, 2023
Publisher: World Soybean Research Conference

Dürre-Resilienz landwirtschaftlicher Systeme am Beispiel des Ackerbaus in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern

Author(s): Eggert, J., Stein, L., Oebel, B., Michalke, A., Gaugler, T. (
Published in: 17. Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau, 2024
Publisher: Wissenschaftstagung Ökologischer Landbau

Peer reviewed articles (16)

True Cost Accounting: een nieuw meetinstrument voor duurzaamheidsbeleid in ons voedselsysteem

Author(s): Baltussen, W.H.M., F.H.J. Bunte, C.P.A. van Wagenberg
Published in: Tijdschrift voor Levensmiddelenrecht, 2024, ISSN 2950-4805
Publisher: Den Hollander
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.16979740

Unravelling Heavy Metal Dynamics in Soil and Honey: A Case Study from Maramureș Region, Romania

Author(s): Florin Dumitru Bora, Anca Cristina Babeș, Anamaria Călugăr, Mugurel Ioan Jitea, Adela Hoble, Răzvan Vasile Filimon, Andrea Bunea, Alexandru Nicolescu, Claudiu Ioan Bunea
Published in: Foods, Issue 12, 2023, ISSN 2304-8158
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/FOODS12193577

The True Price of External Health Effects from Food Consumption

Author(s): Seidel F., Oebel B., Stein L., Michalke A., Gaugler T.
Published in: Nutrients, Issue 15, 2023, ISSN 2072-6643
Publisher: Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)
DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.17034787

A method for calculating the external costs of farm animal welfare based on the Welfare Quality® Protocol

Author(s): Luuk S. M. Vissers, Coen P. A. van Wagenberg, Willy H. M. Baltussen
Published in: Frontiers in Animal Science, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 2673-6225
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FANIM.2023.1195221

Towards true prices in food retailing: the value added tax as an instrument transforming agri-food systems

Author(s): B. Oebel, L. Stein, A. Michalke, S. Stoll-Kleemann, T. Gaugler
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2024, ISSN 1862-4065
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S11625-024-01477-7

Time to transform? Sustainability narratives for European food systems

Author(s): V. Guerrieri, S. Borchardt, G. Listorti, L. Marelli, M. Vittuari
Published in: Global Food Security, Issue 44, 2025, ISSN 2211-9124
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.GFS.2025.100831

Sustainability Science Communication: Case Study of a True Cost Campaign in Germany

Author(s): Lennart Stein, Amelie Michalke, Tobias Gaugler, Susanne Stoll-Kleemann
Published in: Sustainability, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2071-1050
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/SU16093842

Environmental co-benefits of health policies to reduce meat consumption: A narrative review

Author(s): Céline Bonnet, Marine Coinon
Published in: Health Policy, Issue 143, 2025, ISSN 0168-8510
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/J.HEALTHPOL.2024.105017

Dietary change and land use change: assessing preventable climate and biodiversity damage due to meat consumption in Germany

Author(s): Hentschl, M., Michalke, A., Pieper, Gaugler, T.,Stoll-Kleemann, S.,
Published in: Sustainability Science, 2023, ISSN 1862-4057
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7648448.

Agricultural Systems

Author(s): Riera, Anton; Duluins, Océane; Antier, Clémentine; Baret, Philippe
Published in: Agricultural Systems, 2025, ISSN 0308-521x
Publisher: Applied Science Publishers
DOI: 10.1016/J.AGSY.2025.104270

Business models and strategies for the internalization of externalities in agri-food value chains

Author(s): Sepide Mehrabi, Cynthia Giagnocavo
Published in: Agricultural and Food Economics, Issue 12, 2024, ISSN 2193-7532
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1186/S40100-024-00338-2

Higher food prices and poverty. Nature Food volume 4, 640–641 (2023)

Author(s): Steven Lord
Published in: Nature food, Issue 4, 2023, ISSN 2662-1355
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1038/s43016-023-00818-6

True Cost Accounting of organic and conventional food production.

Author(s): A. Michalke, S. Köhler, L.Messmann, A.Thorenz, A.Tuma, T. Gaugler,
Published in: Journal of Cleaner Production, Issue 408, 2023, ISSN 1879-1786
Publisher: ScienceDirect
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.137134

Stakeholder skepticism and pragmatic approaches for True Price Labeling

Author(s): Sebastian Malte Carlsson, Erik Hunter, Edona Arnesen, Anne Odile Peschel, Lennart Stein, Benjamin Oebel, Tobias Gaugler, Mark de Jong, John Thøgersen
Published in: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Issue 9, 2025, ISSN 2571-581X
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
DOI: 10.3389/FSUFS.2025.1599970

Economic costs related to foodborne disease in Burkina Faso and Ethiopia in 2017.

Author(s): van Wagenberg CPA, Havelaar AH
Published in: Front. Sustain. Food Syst., Issue 7, 2023, ISSN 2571-581X
Publisher: Frontiers
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2023.1227430

Transforming food systems: the FOODCoST project

Author(s): Michiel Van Galen
Published in: The Project Repository Journal, Issue 21, 2024, ISSN 2632-4067
Publisher: European Dissemination Media Agency Limited
DOI: 10.54050/PRJ2122472

Book chapters (1)

Regenerative Farming and Sustainable Diets

Author(s): Joyce D'Silva, Carol McKenna
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781032684369

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Towards True Cost Accounting of Agricultural Food Products

Author(s): A. Michalke
Published in: 2023
Publisher: Universität Greifswald

Other (1)

Additional file 1 of Business models and strategies for the internalization of externalities in agri-food value chains

Author(s): Mehrabi, Sepide; Giagnocavo, Cynthia
Published in: 2024
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.6084/M9.FIGSHARE.28078781