Foundations for the evaluation of agriculture and food systems

Foundations for the evaluation of agriculture and food systems

The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity for Agriculture & Food (‘TEEBAgriFood’) is a study that will provide guidance and illustrations for comprehensive evaluations (i.e. including of the most significant externalities) of ‘eco-agri-food systems’*, whilst...

Value chain study of organic soybean from Togo

This study of the organic soy value chain in Togo was carried out in March and April 2018 for the German Cooperation Agency (GIZ), by an international team comprising a specialist of organic value chains, a specialist in conventional markets and a specialist in...

Value chain study of market gardening in eastern Chad

Introduction From February to April 2018, we conducted two studies of food value chains, in very different contexts and for different purposes: A study on market gardening in eastern Chad for Care International A study of the organic soybean value chain in Togo for...

TEEB proposes an evaluation of agriculture and food chains

Pierre Johnson participated to TEEB (The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity) writers workshop on AgriFood, that took place in UNEP’s offices in Paris on May 2016, and to the preparation of a chapter of the Scientific and Economic Foundations Report, which...

Biodiversity: a common challenge

Biodiversity is the diversity and variety of life. A permanent source of creativity, many of us see it as a distant topic from our economic and social activities. However, most of these activities, and our common welfare depend at one level or another on the...