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Spillover effects of dietary transitions

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Adopting healthier diets is key to ensure food security and can bring other benefits, but might also be associated with trade-offs. A new study reveals how the partial transition towards the EAT-Lancet diet by 2030 would affect food affordability, food loss and waste and other environmental indicators.

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Fig. 1: Global average greenhouse gas emission intensities of final consumption across selected sectors.

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