TEEBAGRIFOOD THAILAND: POLICY BRIEF This Policy Brief provides an overview of the TEEB for Agriculture and Food project in Thailand which is

TEEB for Agriculture and Food (TEEBAgriFood) In 2014, with the guidance of the TEEB Advisory Board, UNEP launched TEEB for Agriculture and Food (‘TEEBAgriFood’) with the aim of applying TEEB principles and methods specifically to one economic sector - agriculture – given the impacts and dependencies of this sector on nature and human livelihoods. [...] The TEEBAgriFood Evaluation Framework was developed with the objective to create a common language to describe the range of diverse and complex food and agriculture systems coherently and comparably across spatial scales (national, regional, farm), accounting for the negative and positive externalities of these systems. [...] Agencies engaged within the Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperatives include the Rice Department, the National Bureau of Agricultural Commodity and Food Standards, Department of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Extension, Office of Agricultural Economics, Land Development Department, and the Royal Irrigation Department. [...] Resources online include the scope of the current research, and the Results and Key Messages of a completed analysis on the expansion of organic rice in Northeast Thailand. [...] At the global level, TEEBAgriFood engages with the True Value of Food Initiative initiated at the 2021 UN Food Systems Summit at which there was a broad consensus for the need to account for the true value of food to transform how we produce, process, distribute, consume, and dispose of food to tackle the triple planetary crisis.