The United Nations has published a major new tally of the impact the world's food system has on our health and the planet. According to a report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the total hidden costs of the world's food system add up to $12.7 trillion dollars'roughly 10 percent of global GDP. The report analyzed the costs to health, society, and the environment embedded in the current food system. The biggest impact in monetary terms is on health: Globally, 73 percent of all the hidden costs accounted for by the FAO were associated with diets that led to obesity or non-communicable diseases like diabetes and heart disease. The next biggest impact in monetary terms was to the environment, accounting for more than 20 percent of quantified hidden costs. 'We know that the agrifood system faces a number of challenges,' says David Laborde, director of the FAO's Agrifood Economics Division. 'And with this report, we can put a price tag on these...
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