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05/12/2024
True pricing policy advice
True price of food


This policy brief ties in with the Flemish Food Strategy and outlines the state of play on an emerging issue within global agri-food systems: the true price of food.

Nine recommendations were distilled from recent scientific socioeconomic research on the true price of food.

This policy advice
  • Discusses methodologies for calculating true price
  • presents current challenges
  • makes recommendations based on a review of scientific literature and interviews with actors in the Flemish agri-food sector.

This opinion provides a basis for further exploration and implementation of the concept of true pricing in Flanders.

The document is available in English here.