Dietary choices – the overall food consumption patterns displayed by a population – can, and do, influence greenhouse gas emissions (GHGE) of the food system. Here, we consider the GHGE associated with production of the current U.S. diet, and various dietary recommendations. USDA’s loss adjusted food availability dataset is used to represent current consumption. GHG emission factors were compil...

By 2024, the European Commission will examine a new sustainable labeling framework. Here we describe development of food product system, named Mediterranean Index (Med Index), aimed at promoting adherence to diet (healthy and nutritional pattern) by stimulating citizens practice physical activity consistent with energy intake meals encouraging producers make healthier more products. It is chara...

Introduction: Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have caused environmental effects. Food production is one of the sources of GHGs. This study aimed to suggest dietary scenarios for decreasing GHG emissions. Materials and Methods: GHG emissions in the target population of Urmia city, Northwest Iran, were investigated using a modeling approach. Three dietary scenarios were modeled and analyzed to ev...

Safety and quality of food and feed in Europe today is at a high level, the challenge is to ensure a healthy daily diet but affordable for everyone. Plant breeding and development of functional food ingredients contribute to the production of high quality food and thus to ensure a healthy diet for the entire population in a sustainable manner, while a more efficient processing and distribution ...

Safety and quality of food and feed in Europe today is at a high level, the challenge is to ensure a healthy daily diet but affordable for everyone. Plant breeding and development of functional food ingredients contribute to the production of high quality food and thus to ensure a healthy diet for the entire population in a sustainable manner, while a more efficient processing and distribution ...

conclusions the basnef model could be effective in encouraging the adoption of nutritious eating habits and more active lifestyles at an early age in order to foster long-term health and well-being. results results from the intervention study reveal that the beliefs and attitudes about nutrition of the intervention group, calculated in terms of scores, improved significantly for both male and f...

We estimate food waste at the individual household level indirectly using a stochastic production frontier approach. The estimated average percentage of waste is 32.4%. However, by taking proxied physical activities into consideration and utilizing limited information maximum likelihood estimation, our estimate for average household food waste is reduced to 27.6%. We are also able to explore th...

One of the greatest challenges we face in the twenty-first century is to sustainably feed nine to ten billion people by 2050 while at the same time reducing environmental impact (e.g. greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, biodiversity loss, land use change and loss of ecosystem services). To this end, food security must be delivered. According to the United Nations definition, ‘food security exists w...

Agricultural production, food systems and population health are intimately linked. While there is a strong evidence base to inform our knowledge of what constitutes a healthy human diet, we know little about actual food production or consumption in many populations and how developments in the food and agricultural system will affect dietary intake patterns and health. The paucity of information...