Assessing Indicators and Limits for a Sustainable Everyday Nutrition

Reduce resource consumption by 30-50% in 2030

  • News 23.06.2016

Human nutrition is responsible for about 30% of the global natural resource use. A large untapped potential to increase resource efficiency and improve consumers' health status is assumed, but valid indicators and general guidelines to assess these impacts and limits can barely be found. Therefore the paper "Assessing Indicators and Limits for a Sustainable Everyday Nutrition" by Melanie Lukas et al tries to define sustainable limits towards the individuals’ daily diet and therefore stimulate current available scientific debates.

The paper aims to provide first, an assessment of core indicators to explore the sustainability impact of foodstuff, and second, a deeper understanding and a discussion of sustainable limits for those dimensions of food and nutrition. Therefore several ecological and health indicators which may be suitable to assess the sustainability impact and indicate differences or similarities are discussed. The paper suggests a few indications to set up sustainable levels for health and environmental indicators, based on the idea to reduce the resource use level up to 30-50% in 2030.

The paper was presented at the 10th International European Forum on System Dynamics and Innovation in Food Networks in February 2016 and published in the "International Journal on Food System Dynamics". It is available for download online.


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