Vegans, vegetarians, fish-eaters and meat-eaters in the UK show discrepant environmental impacts

P Scarborough, M Clark, L Cobiac, K Papier… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Modelled dietary scenarios often fail to reflect true dietary practice and do not account for
variation in the environmental burden of food due to sourcing and production methods. Here …

The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action

M Romanello, M Walawender, SC Hsu, A Moskeland… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Despite the initial hope inspired by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world
is now dangerously close to breaching its target of limiting global multiyear mean heating to …

[PDF][PDF] Global trends in wheat production, consumption and trade

O Erenstein, M Jaleta, KA Mottaleb… - … : food security in a …, 2022 - library.oapen.org
Since its domestication around 10,000 years ago, wheat has played a crucial role in global
food security. Wheat now supplies a fifth of food calories and protein to the world's …

Global food systems transitions have enabled affordable diets but had less favourable outcomes for nutrition, environmental health, inclusion and equity

R Ambikapathi, KR Schneider, B Davis, M Herrero… - Nature Food, 2022 - nature.com
Over the past 50 years, food systems worldwide have shifted from predominantly rural to
industrialized and consolidated systems, with impacts on diets, nutrition and health …

[HTML][HTML] Finding flexitarians: Current studies on meat eaters and meat reducers

H Dagevos - Trends in Food Science & Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Much scientific evidence has been found about positive effects of lowering meat
consumption on the environment, human health and animal welfare. Nevertheless …

[HTML][HTML] The role of plant-based alternative foods in sustainable and healthy food systems: Consumption trends in the UK

C Alae-Carew, R Green, C Stewart, B Cook… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
A global transformation towards sustainable food systems is crucial for delivering on climate
change mitigation targets worldwide. In high-and middle-income settings, plant-based meat …

Four ways blue foods can help achieve food system ambitions across nations

BI Crona, E Wassénius, M Jonell, JZ Koehn, R Short… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Blue foods, sourced in aquatic environments, are important for the economies, livelihoods,
nutritional security and cultures of people in many nations. They are often nutrient rich …

Cross-sectoral perspectives (chapter 12)

M Babiker, G Berndes, K Blok, B Cohen, A Cowie… - 2022 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
The total emission mitigation potential achievable by the year 2030, calculated based on
sectoral assessments, is sufficient to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions to half of the …

Cultured meat: promises and challenges

N Treich - Environmental and Resource Economics, 2021 - Springer
Cultured meat involves producing meat from animal cells, not from slaughtered animals.
This innovation has the potential to revolutionize the meat industry, with wide implications for …

[HTML][HTML] Protein quality in perspective: a review of protein quality metrics and their applications

S Adhikari, M Schop, IJM de Boer, T Huppertz - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
For design of healthy and sustainable diets and food systems, it is important to consider not
only the quantity but also the quality of nutrients. This is particularly important for proteins …