Actions

Scaling TCA requires a clear, consistent, and evidence-based explanation of how it generates business and investor value. The community needs to demonstrate how TCA enhances decision-making, risk management, and value creation.

Building relationships with business leaders is essential to strengthening the case for TCA. A dedicated TCA Business Champions Group would engage private-sector leaders and advocate for TCA as a rigorous, strategic decision-making tool with real business benefits.

Stakeholders recommend launching additional targeted test projects with companies and investors to demonstrate TCA’s practical value across the agrifood value chain.

Stakeholders emphasized that meaningful agrifood systems transformation requires direct support for those on the front lines — and at every point in the value chain, from farmers and fishers to processors, distributors, and retailers. Many producers and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) already use practices that benefit people and nature but lack the resources to measure and communicate their value. Those abilities are essential for influencing policy debates, making credible consumer-facing claims, and accessing compensation from public and private programs. A TCA Incentives Fund would expand access to TCA tools and analysis, and create opportunities for these key actors to quantify their impact and lead the agrifood system transition.

Access to finance is a major barrier for producers and SMEs working to build profitable and sustainable agrifood systems. Stakeholders noted the urgent need for more funding to accelerate this transition — with some partners calling for a tenfold increase by 2040 (Global Alliance for the Future of Food, 2023). A funding screening pilot can help investors and funders recognize both the hidden risks and unrealized opportunities within agrifood systems.