The 2021 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: code red for a healthy future

M Romanello, A McGushin, C Di Napoli, P Drummond… - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Executive summary The Lancet Countdown is an international collaboration that
independently monitors the health consequences of a changing climate. Publishing …

Our future in the Anthropocene biosphere

C Folke, S Polasky, J Rockström, V Galaz, F Westley… - Ambio, 2021 - Springer
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed an interconnected and tightly coupled globalized
world in rapid change. This article sets the scientific stage for understanding and responding …

Global greenhouse gas emissions from animal-based foods are twice those of plant-based foods

X Xu, P Sharma, S Shu, TS Lin, P Ciais, FN Tubiello… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Agriculture and land use are major sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but
previous estimates were either highly aggregate or provided spatial details for subsectors …

[HTML][HTML] Blockchain as a sustainability-oriented innovation?: Opportunities for and resistance to Blockchain technology as a driver of sustainability in global food …

N Friedman, J Ormiston - Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022 - Elsevier
Blockchain technology has been forwarded as an innovation to address pressing
sustainability challenges in global food supply chains. However, limited studies have …

Climate change and the urgency to transform food systems

M Zurek, A Hebinck, O Selomane - Science, 2022 - science.org
Without rapid changes to agriculture and food systems, the goals of the 2015 Paris
Agreement on climate change will not be met. Food systems are one of the most important …

Impacts of climate change on the livestock food supply chain; a review of the evidence

CM Godde, D Mason-D'Croz, DE Mayberry… - Global food security, 2021 - Elsevier
The potential impacts of climate change on current livestock systems worldwide are a major
concern, and yet the topic is covered to a limited extent in global reports such as the ones …

[HTML][HTML] Rigorous monitoring is necessary to guide food system transformation in the countdown to the 2030 global goals

J Fanzo, L Haddad, KR Schneider, C Béné, NM Covic… - Food Policy, 2021 - Elsevier
Food systems that support healthy diets in sustainable, resilient, just, and equitable ways
can engender progress in eradicating poverty and malnutrition; protecting human rights; and …

Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems: building the evidence base

FN Tubiello, C Rosenzweig… - Environmental …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
New estimates of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from the food system were developed at
the country level, for the period 1990–2018, integrating data from crop and livestock …

[HTML][HTML] The global and regional costs of healthy and sustainable dietary patterns: a modelling study

M Springmann, MA Clark, M Rayner… - The Lancet Planetary …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Adoption of healthy and sustainable diets could be essential for safe-guarding
the Earth's natural resources and reducing diet-related mortality, but their adoption could be …

[HTML][HTML] Agriculture's contribution to climate change and role in mitigation is distinct from predominantly fossil CO2-emitting sectors

J Lynch, M Cain, D Frame… - Frontiers in sustainable …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Agriculture is a significant contributor to anthropogenic global warming, and reducing
agricultural emissions–largely methane and nitrous oxide–could play a significant role in …