FSEC – cost of action for the food system transformation

The Commission’s overarching objective is to further the transition to healthy, inclusive and sustainable food systems by providing a comprehensive assessment of • the economics of current food systems, • the unaccounted costs of food systems, defined as environmental, dietary health and social costs, and • the distributional impacts of the transition; by rigorously assessing evidence and providin. [...] Selection of measures The measures have been selected in the first phases of the project, relying on a previous SYSTEMIQ (SIQ) report for the environmental measures and relying on several meetings with experts in the field of food systems’ transformation as well as commissioners from FSEC for the selection of the health and social inclusion measures. [...] (2020) Methodology and calculations The cost of the four measures has been calculated by extrapolating a cost per person per year for the implementation of the regulations and it has been multiplied for the populations of the country for the years in which the regulations will be in place. [...] The RAI has been used to estimate the how the access to roads develop across the years until 2050, and to estimate the investment costs necessary for the building of roads so that the RAI reaches certain target values for the different countries in the four income groups. [...] • Access to electricity and internet – for the access to electricity and the estimates of people coming online every year, the Growing Better report has been used; for the access to electricity, the World Bank has been used for the number of people without access to electricity and a real-life cost of a project, documented in an online report56.