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Title : The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems
By : Prof Johan Rockström,PhD, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted,PhD, Prof Walter C Willett,MD , Prof Line J Gordon,PhD , Prof Mario Herrero,PhD , Prof Christina C Hicks,PhD et al.
Poster's Note : Only a small part of a 76 pages' Report
The food system produces enough calories to feed the world’s population, but average diets tend to be of low compositional quality, with a global underconsumption of whole grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Unhealthy overconsumption, notably of red meat (#), is a leading driver of climate and land-use impact ...
(#) mostly by wealthier people
Food systems account for about a 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions, driven largely by animal farming , according to https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eat-less-meat-still-message-223008109.html
Prevailing food production practices are driving biodiversity loss, water scarcity, overuse of pesticides, overloading of fertilisers, climate change, and excessive use of antimicrobials.
Food prices do not reflect the true cost of unsustainable production, and rising prices, persistent poverty and economic inequality, and falling wages make healthy diets too expensive for billions of people. These factors are a major challenge, as society currently fails to pay for the many negative environmental externalities (eg, climate change, biodiversity loss, and water and nutrient pollution) stemming from unhealthy overconsumption, while almost one billion people suffer from undernutrition.
The economic costs of these challenges are staggering: although the global food system generates US$10 trillion in value each year, its negative externalities are estimated at $15 trillion, with the health sector contributing the most.
These trends in global food production, distribution, and consumption drive environmental pressures, health costs, and unacceptable injustices. The current socioeconomic situation for billions of people worldwide undermines fundamental human rights. Inadequate and inequitable access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food for more than 30% of the global population, violates the right to food, contributing to malnutrition, ill health, and maternal and child mortality.
The global food system drives the transgression of multiple planetary boundaries, violating the right to a healthy environment and a stable planet, and resulting in illness and the loss of work, food, and life (figure 1).
Many food systems workers are often underpaid and do not receive social benefits, violating their right to decent work and resulting in exploitation and low purchasing power. In addition, the lack of representation and freedom of expression due to factors such as poverty, legal status, racism, and gender biases of many food systems workers, along with a high market concentration (ie, several large food system firms influencing decision making, policies, and prices), undermines the achievement of these rights.
The planetary health diet and estimated reduction in avoidable deaths among adults:
.. adoption of the PHD (Planetary Health Diet) was estimated to prevent about 10 million avoidable deaths per year among adults globally, representing 17% of total mortality.
Around 50% of the reduction in avoidable deaths was due to composition-related risks, including increased consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, and nuts, and less red and processed meat.
The remaining 50% was due to anticipated reductions in underweight, overweight, and obesity.
... an estimated 15 million deaths per year among adults (27% of total deaths) were found to be avoided globally by achieving a PHD score of 120 (with 140 being perfect consistency)...
Because achieving a global PHD score of 120 is ambitious, we also estimated the potential benefit of achieving a score of 100 (ie, only 15 points above the scores of current diets); here, the estimated reduction of avoidable deaths was 7 million annually (13% of total deaths).
... effects of sodium intake were not included due to difficulties in measurement, ... Additional benefits due to substantial improvements in diet quality are also likely for children, but these are difficult to estimate quantitatively ...
Title : The EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy, sustainable, and just food systems
By : Prof Johan Rockström,PhD, Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted,PhD, Prof Walter C Willett,MD , Prof Line J Gordon,PhD , Prof Mario Herrero,PhD , Prof Christina C Hicks,PhD et al.
Poster's Note : Only a small part of a 76 pages' Report
The food system produces enough calories to feed the world’s population, but average diets tend to be of low compositional quality, with a global underconsumption of whole grains, fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Unhealthy overconsumption, notably of red meat (#), is a leading driver of climate and land-use impact ...
(#) mostly by wealthier people
Food systems account for about a 1/3 of global greenhouse gas emissions, driven largely by animal farming , according to https://finance.yahoo.com/news/eat-less-meat-still-message-223008109.html
Prevailing food production practices are driving biodiversity loss, water scarcity, overuse of pesticides, overloading of fertilisers, climate change, and excessive use of antimicrobials.
Food prices do not reflect the true cost of unsustainable production, and rising prices, persistent poverty and economic inequality, and falling wages make healthy diets too expensive for billions of people. These factors are a major challenge, as society currently fails to pay for the many negative environmental externalities (eg, climate change, biodiversity loss, and water and nutrient pollution) stemming from unhealthy overconsumption, while almost one billion people suffer from undernutrition.
The economic costs of these challenges are staggering: although the global food system generates US$10 trillion in value each year, its negative externalities are estimated at $15 trillion, with the health sector contributing the most.
These trends in global food production, distribution, and consumption drive environmental pressures, health costs, and unacceptable injustices. The current socioeconomic situation for billions of people worldwide undermines fundamental human rights. Inadequate and inequitable access to safe, sufficient, and nutritious food for more than 30% of the global population, violates the right to food, contributing to malnutrition, ill health, and maternal and child mortality.
The global food system drives the transgression of multiple planetary boundaries, violating the right to a healthy environment and a stable planet, and resulting in illness and the loss of work, food, and life (figure 1).
Many food systems workers are often underpaid and do not receive social benefits, violating their right to decent work and resulting in exploitation and low purchasing power. In addition, the lack of representation and freedom of expression due to factors such as poverty, legal status, racism, and gender biases of many food systems workers, along with a high market concentration (ie, several large food system firms influencing decision making, policies, and prices), undermines the achievement of these rights.
The planetary health diet and estimated reduction in avoidable deaths among adults:
.. adoption of the PHD (Planetary Health Diet) was estimated to prevent about 10 million avoidable deaths per year among adults globally, representing 17% of total mortality.
Around 50% of the reduction in avoidable deaths was due to composition-related risks, including increased consumption of whole grains, fruits, vegetables, legumes, and nuts, and less red and processed meat.
The remaining 50% was due to anticipated reductions in underweight, overweight, and obesity.
... an estimated 15 million deaths per year among adults (27% of total deaths) were found to be avoided globally by achieving a PHD score of 120 (with 140 being perfect consistency)...
Because achieving a global PHD score of 120 is ambitious, we also estimated the potential benefit of achieving a score of 100 (ie, only 15 points above the scores of current diets); here, the estimated reduction of avoidable deaths was 7 million annually (13% of total deaths).
... effects of sodium intake were not included due to difficulties in measurement, ... Additional benefits due to substantial improvements in diet quality are also likely for children, but these are difficult to estimate quantitatively ...
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