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

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dc.creatorHeller, Martin C.
dc.creatorWalchale, Abhijeet
dc.creatorHeard, Brent R.
dc.creatorHoey, Lesli
dc.creatorKhoury, Colin K.
dc.creatorHaan, Stef de
dc.creatorBurra, Dharani Dhar
dc.creatorThi, Thanh Duong
dc.creatorOsiemo, Jamleck
dc.creatorJones, Andrew D.
dc.date2018-10
dc.date2018-11-29T13:04:55Z
dc.date2018-11-29T13:04:55Z
dc.date.accessioned2026-06-27T14:42:55Z
dc.descriptionSustainable 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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dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/98374
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/86247
dc.languageen
dc.publisherInternational Conference on Green and Sustainable Innovation (ICGSI)
dc.rightsOpen Access
dc.sourceHeller, 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.
dc.subjectdecision making
dc.subjecttoma de decisiones
dc.subjectgreenhouse gases
dc.subjectsustainable development
dc.titleEnvironmental Analyses to Inform Transitions to Sustainable Diets in Developing Countries: a Component of the EATS Project
dc.typeConference Paper

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