India [in How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study]

We review the hidden costs of food systems in India as developed in the FAO SOFA 2023 report and evaluate the results in the context of India. Additionally, we assess the factors of change to reduce the hidden costs of food systems in India through a multi-model approach. We use a suite of interconn...

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Autores principales: Singh, Vartika, Stevanović, Miodrag, Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan, Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon, Popp, Alexander, Lotze-Campen, Hermann
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Publicado: FABLE Consortium 2024
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159601
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author Singh, Vartika
Stevanović, Miodrag
Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan
Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon
Popp, Alexander
Lotze-Campen, Hermann
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Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan
Lotze-Campen, Hermann
Popp, Alexander
Singh, Vartika
Stevanović, Miodrag
author_facet Singh, Vartika
Stevanović, Miodrag
Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan
Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon
Popp, Alexander
Lotze-Campen, Hermann
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description We review the hidden costs of food systems in India as developed in the FAO SOFA 2023 report and evaluate the results in the context of India. Additionally, we assess the factors of change to reduce the hidden costs of food systems in India through a multi-model approach. We use a suite of interconnected models to implement scenarios and assess their impact on reducing the hidden costs. We create two scenarios of transformation and evaluate them across 14 indicators of food system changes encompassing the four dimensions of health, environment, inclusion, and economic costs. We also conduct stakeholder consultations to discuss the analysis and gather stakeholder opinions. We find that large average hidden cost reductions until 2050 come mainly from shift towards healthy diets, improved crop and livestock production, avoided cropland expansion and mitigated NO3 run-off. Timely shifts in dietary patterns, curbing nitrogen emissions from cropland surface runoff, and managing land use change emerge as pivotal factors for reduction of hidden costs in India. Our analysis points towards the importance of assessment of hidden costs of food systems in India using existing data and evidence. At the same time, the results from our analysis highlight the importance of reviewing analysis of hidden costs, methodological validation, and forward-looking projections within agrifood systems.
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spelling CGSpace1596012025-12-08T09:54:28Z India [in How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study] Singh, Vartika Stevanović, Miodrag Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon Popp, Alexander Lotze-Campen, Hermann food systems models diet emission We review the hidden costs of food systems in India as developed in the FAO SOFA 2023 report and evaluate the results in the context of India. Additionally, we assess the factors of change to reduce the hidden costs of food systems in India through a multi-model approach. We use a suite of interconnected models to implement scenarios and assess their impact on reducing the hidden costs. We create two scenarios of transformation and evaluate them across 14 indicators of food system changes encompassing the four dimensions of health, environment, inclusion, and economic costs. We also conduct stakeholder consultations to discuss the analysis and gather stakeholder opinions. We find that large average hidden cost reductions until 2050 come mainly from shift towards healthy diets, improved crop and livestock production, avoided cropland expansion and mitigated NO3 run-off. Timely shifts in dietary patterns, curbing nitrogen emissions from cropland surface runoff, and managing land use change emerge as pivotal factors for reduction of hidden costs in India. Our analysis points towards the importance of assessment of hidden costs of food systems in India using existing data and evidence. At the same time, the results from our analysis highlight the importance of reviewing analysis of hidden costs, methodological validation, and forward-looking projections within agrifood systems. 2024 2024-11-12T19:28:42Z 2024-11-12T19:28:42Z Report https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159601 en https://doi.org/10.4060/cd2616en Open Access FABLE Consortium Singh, Vartika; Stevanović, Miodrag; Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan; Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon; Popp, Alexander; and Lotze-Campen, Hermann. 2024. India. In How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study, FABLE Consortium, Chapter 6, Pp. 144-166. https://www.unsdsn.org/resources/how-to-reduce-agrifood-systems-future-hidden-costs-a-multi-country-case-study/
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models
diet
emission
Singh, Vartika
Stevanović, Miodrag
Kumar Ghosh, Ranjan
Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon
Popp, Alexander
Lotze-Campen, Hermann
India [in How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study]
title India [in How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study]
title_full India [in How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study]
title_fullStr India [in How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study]
title_full_unstemmed India [in How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study]
title_short India [in How to reduce agrifood systems' future hidden costs? A multi-country case study]
title_sort india in how to reduce agrifood systems future hidden costs a multi country case study
topic food systems
models
diet
emission
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/159601
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