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Research needs for a food system transition
The global food system, and animal agriculture in particular, is a major and growing contributor to climate change, land system change, biodiversity loss, water consumption and contamination, and environmental pollution. The copious production and consumption of animal products are also contributing...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10074344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37034009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03507-2 |
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author | McDermid, Sonali Shukla Hayek, Matthew Jamieson, Dale W. Hale, Galina Kanter, David |
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description | The global food system, and animal agriculture in particular, is a major and growing contributor to climate change, land system change, biodiversity loss, water consumption and contamination, and environmental pollution. The copious production and consumption of animal products are also contributing to increasingly negative public health outcomes, particularly in wealthy and rapidly industrializing countries, and result in the slaughter of trillions of animals each year. These impacts are motivating calls for reduced reliance on animal-based products and increased use of replacement plant-based products. However, our understanding of how the production and consumption of animal products, as well as plant-based alternatives, interact with important dimensions of human and environment systems is incomplete across space and time. This inhibits comprehensively envisioning global and regional food system transitions and planning to manage the costs and synergies thereof. We therefore propose a cross-disciplinary research agenda on future target-based scenarios for food system transformation that has at its core three main activities: (1) data collection and analysis at the intersection of animal agriculture, the environment, and societal well-being, (2) the construction of target-based scenarios for animal products informed by these new data and empirical understandings, and (3) the evaluation of impacts, unintended consequences, co-benefits, and trade-offs of these target-based scenarios to help inform decision-making. |
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spelling | pubmed-100743442023-04-05 Research needs for a food system transition McDermid, Sonali Shukla Hayek, Matthew Jamieson, Dale W. Hale, Galina Kanter, David Clim Change Essay The global food system, and animal agriculture in particular, is a major and growing contributor to climate change, land system change, biodiversity loss, water consumption and contamination, and environmental pollution. The copious production and consumption of animal products are also contributing to increasingly negative public health outcomes, particularly in wealthy and rapidly industrializing countries, and result in the slaughter of trillions of animals each year. These impacts are motivating calls for reduced reliance on animal-based products and increased use of replacement plant-based products. However, our understanding of how the production and consumption of animal products, as well as plant-based alternatives, interact with important dimensions of human and environment systems is incomplete across space and time. This inhibits comprehensively envisioning global and regional food system transitions and planning to manage the costs and synergies thereof. We therefore propose a cross-disciplinary research agenda on future target-based scenarios for food system transformation that has at its core three main activities: (1) data collection and analysis at the intersection of animal agriculture, the environment, and societal well-being, (2) the construction of target-based scenarios for animal products informed by these new data and empirical understandings, and (3) the evaluation of impacts, unintended consequences, co-benefits, and trade-offs of these target-based scenarios to help inform decision-making. Springer Netherlands 2023-04-05 2023 /pmc/articles/PMC10074344/ /pubmed/37034009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03507-2 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2023, Springer Nature or its licensor (e.g. a society or other partner) holds exclusive rights to this article under a publishing agreement with the author(s) or other rightsholder(s); author self-archiving of the accepted manuscript version of this article is solely governed by the terms of such publishing agreement and applicable law. This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Essay McDermid, Sonali Shukla Hayek, Matthew Jamieson, Dale W. Hale, Galina Kanter, David Research needs for a food system transition |
title | Research needs for a food system transition |
title_full | Research needs for a food system transition |
title_fullStr | Research needs for a food system transition |
title_full_unstemmed | Research needs for a food system transition |
title_short | Research needs for a food system transition |
title_sort | research needs for a food system transition |
topic | Essay |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10074344/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37034009 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10584-023-03507-2 |
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