Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project

Sustainable diets are an environmental, economic and public health imperative, but identifying clear intervention points is challenging. The Entry points to Advance Transitions towards Sustainable diets (EATS) project seeks to repackage existing data, combined with an interview-informed awareness of...

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Autores principales: Heller, Martin C., Walchale, Abhijeet, Heard, Brent R., Hoey, Lesli, Khoury, Colin K., Haan, Stef de, Burra, Dharani Dhar, Thi, Thanh Duong, Osiemo, Jamleck, Jones, Andrew D.
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Publicado: International Conference on Green and Sustainable Innovation (ICGSI) 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98374
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author Heller, Martin C.
Walchale, Abhijeet
Heard, Brent R.
Hoey, Lesli
Khoury, Colin K.
Haan, Stef de
Burra, Dharani Dhar
Thi, Thanh Duong
Osiemo, Jamleck
Jones, Andrew D.
author_browse Burra, Dharani Dhar
Haan, Stef de
Heard, Brent R.
Heller, Martin C.
Hoey, Lesli
Jones, Andrew D.
Khoury, Colin K.
Osiemo, Jamleck
Thi, Thanh Duong
Walchale, Abhijeet
author_facet Heller, Martin C.
Walchale, Abhijeet
Heard, Brent R.
Hoey, Lesli
Khoury, Colin K.
Haan, Stef de
Burra, Dharani Dhar
Thi, Thanh Duong
Osiemo, Jamleck
Jones, Andrew D.
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description Sustainable diets are an environmental, economic and public health imperative, but identifying clear intervention points is challenging. The Entry points to Advance Transitions towards Sustainable diets (EATS) project seeks to repackage existing data, combined with an interview-informed awareness of current national and sub-national policy processes, to inform food system-level decision making. Here we view historic trends in food supply in Vietnam and Kenya as a proxy for national average diets, and consider them in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions and cumulative energy demand associated with producing that food. Economic prosperity in Vietnam in recent decades has led to increases in meat consumption and, in turn, amplified increases in diet level environmental impacts. Mild levels of beef consumption in Vietnam have now overcome the most popular meat, pork, as the dominant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, historically consistent levels of dairy and beef in Kenya dominate diet-level environmental impacts. This preliminary work will be integrated into later stages of the EATS project to promote systemic approaches to sustainable development.
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spelling CGSpace983742025-11-05T16:21:20Z Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project Heller, Martin C. Walchale, Abhijeet Heard, Brent R. Hoey, Lesli Khoury, Colin K. Haan, Stef de Burra, Dharani Dhar Thi, Thanh Duong Osiemo, Jamleck Jones, Andrew D. decision making toma de decisiones greenhouse gases sustainable development Sustainable diets are an environmental, economic and public health imperative, but identifying clear intervention points is challenging. The Entry points to Advance Transitions towards Sustainable diets (EATS) project seeks to repackage existing data, combined with an interview-informed awareness of current national and sub-national policy processes, to inform food system-level decision making. Here we view historic trends in food supply in Vietnam and Kenya as a proxy for national average diets, and consider them in terms of the greenhouse gas emissions and cumulative energy demand associated with producing that food. Economic prosperity in Vietnam in recent decades has led to increases in meat consumption and, in turn, amplified increases in diet level environmental impacts. Mild levels of beef consumption in Vietnam have now overcome the most popular meat, pork, as the dominant source of greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, historically consistent levels of dairy and beef in Kenya dominate diet-level environmental impacts. This preliminary work will be integrated into later stages of the EATS project to promote systemic approaches to sustainable development. 2018-10 2018-11-29T13:04:55Z 2018-11-29T13:04:55Z Conference Paper https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98374 en Open Access application/pdf International Conference on Green and Sustainable Innovation (ICGSI) Heller, Martin C.; Walchale, Abhijeet; Heard, Brent; Hoey, Lesli; Khoury, Colin K.; de Haan. Stef; Burra, Dharani D.; Thi, Thanh Duong; Osiemo, Jamleck & Jones, Andrew D. (2018) “Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project”. The 11th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food (LCA Food 2018) in conjunction with the 6th LCA AgriFood Asia and the 7th International Conference on Green and Sustainable Innovation (ICGSI), 16-20 October 2018, Bangkok, Thailand.
spellingShingle decision making
toma de decisiones
greenhouse gases
sustainable development
Heller, Martin C.
Walchale, Abhijeet
Heard, Brent R.
Hoey, Lesli
Khoury, Colin K.
Haan, Stef de
Burra, Dharani Dhar
Thi, Thanh Duong
Osiemo, Jamleck
Jones, Andrew D.
Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project
title Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project
title_full Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project
title_fullStr Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project
title_full_unstemmed Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project
title_short Environmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project
title_sort environmental analyses to inform transitions to sustainable diets in developing countries a component of the eats project
topic decision making
toma de decisiones
greenhouse gases
sustainable development
url https://hdl.handle.net/10568/98374
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