Veronica Petrencu

Projects Coordinator & Research Fellow, UNIL & EPFL

Veronica coordinates the True Cost of Food project and the E4S Food and Agriculture platform. She is in charge of knowledge transfer, dissemination, and stakeholder management.

She holds a PhD in Economics and is passionate about sustainability, food, and education, being motivated to contribute to systemic change by mobilizing stakeholders and transferring knowledge.

 

 

Research participation & Publications

The True Cost Accounting for Food: an interdisciplinary project

We believe that one solution for transitioning towards more sustainable, resilient, and inclusive food systems is the implementation of the true cost of food from farm to fork, i.e. environmental, social, and health externalities being accounted for in the cost of food. Several (scientific, business and policy) attempts have been proposed, yet they either focus on carbon emissions or waste footprint, the social or the health and nutrition aspects.

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