Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: food and agriculture

S Friel, AD Dangour, T Garnett, K Lock, Z Chalabi… - The Lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
Agricultural food production and agriculturally-related change in land use substantially
contribute to greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide. Four-fifths of agricultural emissions …

Food, livestock production, energy, climate change, and health

AJ McMichael, JW Powles, CD Butler, R Uauy - The lancet, 2007 - thelancet.com
Food provides energy and nutrients, but its acquisition requires energy expenditure. In post-
hunter-gatherer societies, extra-somatic energy has greatly expanded and intensified the …

Adoption of the 'planetary health diet'has different impacts on countries' greenhouse gas emissions

RD Semba, S de Pee, B Kim, S McKenzie, K Nachman… - Nature Food, 2020 - nature.com
A worldwide shift from current diets to the planetary health diet proposed by the EAT–Lancet
Commission would have direct implications for agricultural greenhouse gas (GHG) …

Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: overview and implications for policy makers

A Haines, AJ McMichael, KR Smith, I Roberts… - The lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
This Series has examined the health implications of policies aimed at tackling climate
change. Assessments of mitigation strategies in four domains—household energy, transport …

Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: health implications of short-lived greenhouse pollutants

KR Smith, M Jerrett, HR Anderson, RT Burnett, V Stone… - The lancet, 2009 - thelancet.com
In this report we review the health effects of three short-lived greenhouse pollutants—black
carbon, ozone, and sulphates. We undertook new meta-analyses of existing time-series …

Elevated atmospheric CO2 concentrations and climate change will affect our food's quality and quantity

KL Ebi, I Loladze - The Lancet Planetary Health, 2019 - thelancet.com
Greenhouse gas emissions are affecting the quantity and quality of our food in two ways.
First, they are driving anthropogenic climate change, which decreases yields of major cereal …

Global and regional health effects of future food production under climate change: a modelling study

M Springmann, D Mason-D'Croz, S Robinson… - The Lancet, 2016 - thelancet.com
Background One of the most important consequences of climate change could be its effects
on agriculture. Although much research has focused on questions of food security, less has …

The neglected environmental impacts of ultra-processed foods

P Seferidi, G Scrinis, I Huybrechts, J Woods… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2020 - thelancet.com
What and how we eat have important environmental impacts, with 26% of anthropogenic
greenhouse gas emissions globally attributed to the total food supply chain. 1 As a response …

Pathways to a healthy net-zero future: report of the Lancet Pathfinder Commission

S Whitmee, R Green, K Belesova, S Hassan, S Cuevas… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Deep, rapid cuts in greenhouse gas emissions are needed to limit future
global temperature increases to 1· 5 C above pre-industrial levels, but current progress is …

The role of fats in the transition to sustainable diets

B Bajželj, F Laguzzi, E Röös - The Lancet Planetary Health, 2021 - thelancet.com
In comparison with protein, dietary fat receives little attention in the food system
sustainability literature, although we calculate that the average consumption of fats in many …