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http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32585| Title: | Estimating the environmental impact of diets based on individual-level dietary intake data: infographics on the FAO/WHO GIFT platform |
| Authors: | de Quadros, VP Tereza da Silva, J Balcerzak, A Allemand, P Leclercq, C Ferrari, M Schmidt Rivera, X Reynolds, C Holmes, BA |
| Keywords: | food systems;healthy diets;dietary assessment;environmental impacts;greenhouse gas emissions;water use;land use |
| Issue Date: | 10-Dec-2025 |
| Publisher: | Frontiers Media |
| Citation: | de Quadros, V.P. et al. (2025) 'Estimating the environmental impact of diets based on individual-level dietary intake data: infographics on the FAO/WHO GIFT platform', Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 9, 1662566, pp. 1 - 8. doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1662566. |
| Abstract: | Integrating environmental impacts into dietary assessment is crucial to promote healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Nonetheless, the environmental impacts of individual dietary intake are rarely reported. This paper describes how environmental impacts are integrated into dietary data through the FAO/WHO Global Individual Food Consumption Data Tool (FAO/WHO GIFT). The environmental infographics available on FAO/WHO GIFT offer a user-friendly interface to understand the average footprint of diets, identifying contributing food groups, and exploring variations in environmental impacts. The infographics present estimates for three environmental indicators - greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and land use of dietary intake, allowing users to assess the environmental implications of different diets. Tools to monitor and assess dietary environmental impact, such as those offered by FAO/WHO GIFT, are essential for informing transformation towards healthy diets from sustainable food systems. |
| Description: | Data availability statement:
The datasets presented in this study can be found in online repositories. The names of the repository/repositories and accession number(s) can be found at https://www.fao.org/gift-individual-food-consumption/en/. Generative AI statement: The authors declare that no Gen AI was used in the creation of this manuscript. Any alternative text (alt text) provided alongside figures in this article has been generated by Frontiers with the support of artificial intelligence and reasonable efforts have been made to ensure accuracy, including review by the authors wherever possible. |
| URI: | https://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/32585 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1662566 |
| Other Identifiers: | ORCiD: Ximena Schmidt Rivera https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0157-2679 Article number: 1662566 |
| Appears in Collections: | Dept of Chemical Engineering Research Papers |
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