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Sustainable healthy diets

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Cover of the SLU-TABLE publication "Exploring the future of meat" (2024)
Publication
Exploring the future of meat: Navigating complex topics for better decision making
This report draws on insights gleaned from putting together the project "The future of meat – storytelling and dialogues for improved decision making" from 2021-2023, integrating lessons from expert interviews, podcast production, and facilitated workshops.
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Journal articles
Can healthy diets be achieved worldwide in 2050 without farmland expansion?
This paper adds to the literature on modelling agricultural land-use demand in 2050 given a growing global population, climate change-induced changes in yields, and projections for as-yet unrealised technological improvements. The main innovation of this study is to constrain the amount of dietary change that can be included in the model. Consequently, this model includes much more regional dietary variation than do other such projections, and much higher ASF consumption than many. The authors find that, contrary to previous studies, several regions cannot achieve food security without expanding agricultural land use. In particular, more pasture land is needed, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. In a wider group of regions, producing sufficient food without increasing agricultural land use only appears possible if we assume an optimistic scenario for increasing yields
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The cover of How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry by Barrett et. al. with an Aerial photo of crop lines.
Books
How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry
Aimed at industry professionals, this book offers a practical guide to analyse and design sustainable business practice in the food industry. The book demystifies a range of topics in the food system through using real life business cases. 
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Cover of The Lost Supper by Taras Grescoe depicting a botanical illustration of a tomato plant.
Books
The Lost Supper: Searching for the Future of Food in the Flavours of the Past
Taras Grecoe looks into the history of agriculture, food production and consumption in order to understand how historical practices could positively shape a sustainable future food system. He argues that the future of food security, human health and biodiversity can only be reached by re-engaging with the culinary diversity of the past through radically diversifying the food of the future.
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The cover of the European Commission report Towards sustainable food consumption with illustrations of hands holding various vegetables.
Reports
Towards sustainable food consumption
This report is a follow on to The Farm to Fork strategy, announced by the European Commission in 2020, that presented a series of policy goals based on the assumption that consumers choose food through a rational and reflective process. Incorporating scientific evidence that consumer choice is actually largely influenced and restricted by food environments, this report sets out a set of recommendations for a mix of policy interventions to overcome the barriers that are preventing consumers from adopting more sustainable and healthier diets.
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News and resources
New presidential advisory puts food at the heart of U.S. health policy
The new American Heart Association Presidential Advisory board has recommended creating a robust evidence base for increasing the adoption of clinical Food is Medicine programs in the US. These programs recognise the importance of nutrition in preventative treatment of chronic disease and use healthy, food-based interventions to help prevent, manage, and treat chronic diet-related diseases.
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Cover of It’s time to act on processed meat, a report by Eating Better, showing a pile of frankfurters
Reports
It's time to act on processed meat
Processed meat currently makes up around 30% of average meat intake in the UK. This report outlines the negative effects that processed meat consumption has on both human and environmental health. It then sets out a series of policy recommendations for minimising its consumption
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The cover of the Lower income, low emissions? report
Reports
Low Income, Low Emissions?
This briefing by The Food Foundation explores the accessibility of sustainable, low emission diets for low income groups in the UK. The report focuses on two consumer behaviours needed to meet agrifood emissions targets: a reduction in meat and dairy consumption, and the elimination of household level food waste. The report finds that whilst theoretical models of low income diets are affordable, the reality is that they are often not accessible for low income households.
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Journal articles
Diets high in animal products have increased negative environmental outcomes regardless of production, sourcing, calories or metrics
This paper uses data on the real life (as opposed to modelled) dietary practices of vegans, vegetarians and meat eaters to compare environmental impacts across all major environmental measures. The paper links one of the largest datasets available on the true dietary practice of different self-identified dietary groups (vegan, vegetarian, meat eater etc.), with data on the environmental impact of 589 foods across ten environmental measures from 570 life-cycle assessments.  
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