Integrated assessment of global climate, air pollution and dietary malnutrition and obesity health impacts of food production and consumption between 2014 and 2018

The document presents a new modelling framework that integrates the assessment of food consumption-related health risks with the quantification of greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions from food production. Applied to the 2014–2018 period, the model demonstrates that integrated strategies can mitigate climate change while improving human health, though it also identifies potential trade-offs where expanded agricultural production may increase emissions.

• The authors developed a new model to fill a gap in existing tools by integrating the assessment of agricultural systems across three dimensions: indirect human health risks from food consumption (dietary, obesity, and malnutrition), direct human health risks from exposure to agricultural air pollutants, and greenhouse gas emissions.
• Application of the model to the 2014–2018 period indicates that there are significant opportunities to create integrated strategies that simultaneously improve human health and mitigate climate change, although increasing agricultural production to meet demand may create trade-offs by increasing emissions.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2021). Integrated assessment of global climate, air pollution and dietary malnutrition and obesity health impacts of food production and consumption between 2014 and 2018. https://www.sei.org/publications/integrated-assessment-of-global-climate-air-pollution-and-dietary-malnutrition-and-obesity-health-impacts-of-food-production-and-consumption-between-2014-and-2018/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Integrated assessment of global climate, air pollution and dietary malnutrition and obesity health impacts of food production and consumption between 2014 and 2018. 2021. https://www.sei.org/publications/integrated-assessment-of-global-climate-air-pollution-and-dietary-malnutrition-and-obesity-health-impacts-of-food-production-and-consumption-between-2014-and-2018/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2021integrated, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Integrated assessment of global climate, air pollution and dietary malnutrition and obesity health impacts of food production and consumption between 2014 and 2018}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2021}, month = jul, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/integrated-assessment-of-global-climate-air-pollution-and-dietary-malnutrition-and-obesity-health-impacts-of-food-production-and-consumption-between-2014-and-2018/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }