health and environment impacts of food consumption

This research paper introduces an agricultural systems model designed to integrate the assessment of greenhouse gas emissions with food consumption-related health risks and agricultural air pollutant emissions.

• The paper presents a new integrated modelling framework that uses national food demand as a starting point to represent the livestock and crop production systems required to meet that demand, allowing for the simultaneous evaluation of climate and health impacts.
• For the year 2018, the model estimated global agricultural emissions of 129 million metric tons of methane, 4.4 million metric tons of nitrous oxide, and 44 million tons of ammonia.
• The model's 2018 estimates for health impacts include 4.1 million deaths from dietary health risks, 6 million from obesity, and 730,000 infant deaths from malnutrition. Additionally, agricultural air pollutants were linked to 537,000 premature deaths from fine particulate matter (PM2.5) exposure and 184,000 premature deaths from methane-induced ground-level ozone.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). health and environment impacts of food consumption. https://www.sei.org/publications/health-and-environment-impacts-of-food-consumption/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. health and environment impacts of food consumption. 2021. https://www.sei.org/publications/health-and-environment-impacts-of-food-consumption/.

Wikipedia

{{cite report |author=Stockholm Environment Institute |title=health and environment impacts of food consumption |date=6 July 2021 |url=https://www.sei.org/publications/health-and-environment-impacts-of-food-consumption/ |access-date=17 August 2026 |via=Climate Insights Directory}}

BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021health, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{health and environment impacts of food consumption}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = jul, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/health-and-environment-impacts-of-food-consumption/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }