Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets
Globally, about 21–37% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are attributable to food systems. Dietary-related non-communicable diseases have increased significantly from 1990–2019 at a global scale. To achieve carbon emissions targets, increase resilience, and improve health there is a need to in...
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| author | Angelina Sanderson Bellamy Ella Furness Susanna Mills Adrian Clear Samantha Mitchell Finnigan Elliot Meador Alice E. Milne Ryan T. Sharp |
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| description | Globally, about 21–37% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are attributable to food systems. Dietary-related non-communicable diseases have increased significantly from 1990–2019 at a global scale. To achieve carbon emissions targets, increase resilience, and improve health there is a need to increase the sustainability of agricultural practises and change dietary habits. By considering these challenges together and focusing on a closer connection between consumers and sustainable production, we can benefit from a positive interaction between them. Using the 2019 EAT Lancet Commission dietary guidelines, this study analysed interview data and food diaries collected from members of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) schemes and the wider UK population. By comparing the environmental sustainability and nutritional quality of their respective diets, we found that CSA members consumed diets closer to the EAT Lancet recommendations than controls. We identified significant differences in daily intakes of meat; dairy; vegetables; legumes; and sugar, and the diets of CSA members emitted on average 28% less CO2 compared to controls. We propose that agricultural and wider social and economic policies that increase the accessibility of CSAs for a more diverse demographic could support achieving health, biodiversity, and zero-emission policy targets. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-983984013c494d8d98e1ec092f4d869d2023-04-14T05:39:47ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2023-04-01710.3389/fsufs.2023.11606271160627Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targetsAngelina Sanderson Bellamy0Ella Furness1Susanna Mills2Adrian Clear3Samantha Mitchell Finnigan4Elliot Meador5Alice E. Milne6Ryan T. Sharp7School of Applied Sciences, University of the West of England, Bristol, United KingdomSustainable Places Research Institute, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United KingdomPopulation Health Sciences Institute, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomDepartment of Computer Science, University of Galway, Galway, County Galway, IrelandOpen Lab, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United KingdomRural Society Team, Scotland's Rural College, Edinburgh, Scotland, United KingdomSustainable Agriculture Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herefordshire, United KingdomSustainable Agriculture Sciences Department, Rothamsted Research, Harpenden, Herefordshire, United KingdomGlobally, about 21–37% of total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are attributable to food systems. Dietary-related non-communicable diseases have increased significantly from 1990–2019 at a global scale. To achieve carbon emissions targets, increase resilience, and improve health there is a need to increase the sustainability of agricultural practises and change dietary habits. By considering these challenges together and focusing on a closer connection between consumers and sustainable production, we can benefit from a positive interaction between them. Using the 2019 EAT Lancet Commission dietary guidelines, this study analysed interview data and food diaries collected from members of Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) schemes and the wider UK population. By comparing the environmental sustainability and nutritional quality of their respective diets, we found that CSA members consumed diets closer to the EAT Lancet recommendations than controls. We identified significant differences in daily intakes of meat; dairy; vegetables; legumes; and sugar, and the diets of CSA members emitted on average 28% less CO2 compared to controls. We propose that agricultural and wider social and economic policies that increase the accessibility of CSAs for a more diverse demographic could support achieving health, biodiversity, and zero-emission policy targets.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1160627/fullconsumptionhealthyenvironmentally sustainablezero emission targetscommunity supported agricultureEAT-lancet diet |
| spellingShingle | Angelina Sanderson Bellamy Ella Furness Susanna Mills Adrian Clear Samantha Mitchell Finnigan Elliot Meador Alice E. Milne Ryan T. Sharp Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems consumption healthy environmentally sustainable zero emission targets community supported agriculture EAT-lancet diet |
| title | Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets |
| title_full | Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets |
| title_fullStr | Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets |
| title_full_unstemmed | Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets |
| title_short | Promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets |
| title_sort | promoting dietary changes for achieving health and sustainability targets |
| topic | consumption healthy environmentally sustainable zero emission targets community supported agriculture EAT-lancet diet |
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