Chapter 7 Notes
1. See https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2542-5196%2821%2900251-5: The
global and regional costs of healthy and sustainable dietary patterns: a modeling study,
Marco Springmann, Michael A Clark, Mike Rayner, Peter Scarborough, Patrick Webb.
2. See Hannah Ritchie (2020) - “You want to reduce the carbon footprint
of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is
local” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from:
https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local [Online Resource] (see graphic:
“Food: greenhouse gas emissions across the supply chain”).
3. See https://www.fao.org/3/i3461e/i3461e.pdf.
4. See Hannah Ritchie (2020) - “The carbon footprint of foods: are differences explained
by the impacts of methane?” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from:
‘https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-footprint-food-methane’ [Online Resource].
5. See https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-greenhouse-gas-inventory on page
325 of the UK Annual National Inventory report: 1990-2014.
6. It’s advisable to talk with a nutritionist if you have specific health questions or chronic
illnesses that require a bit of dietary finessing.
7. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/apr/25/going-vegan-can-switching-to-
a-plant-based-diet-really-save-the-planet.
8. Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado, and Max Roser (2020), “Environmental impacts of food
production.” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from:
https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food.
9. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaw9908.
10. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00431-5.epdf.
11. Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado, and Max Roser (2020), “Environmental impacts of food
production.” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from:
https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food.
12. See https://ourworldindata.org/land-use and https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/
13. Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado, and Max Roser (2020), “Environmental impacts of food
production.” Published online at OurWorldInData.org. Retrieved from:
https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food.
14. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/
15. See https://www.fao.org/3/A0701E/a0701e.pdf.
16. See https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/soil-carbon-storage-84223790.
17. See Hannah Ritchie (2020) - “You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus
on what you eat, not whether your food is local” (see graphic: “Food: greenhouse gas
emissions across the supply chain”). Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved
from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local’ [Online Resource].
18. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensive_farming.
19. See https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13165-020-00281-8.
20. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IFOAM_-_Organics_International.
21. See https://web.archive.org/web/20141006121651/http://www.iobc-wprs.org/ip_ipm/
22. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_farming.
23. See https://www.drawdown.org/board/pedro-diniz.
24. See http://www.regenerativeagriculturedefinition.com.
25. See https://regenorganic.org.
26. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture.
27. For example, WWF “Ratgeber App” and CodeCheck.
28. See http://www.ecolabelindex.com.
29. For environment, see Rainforest Alliance http://rainforest-alliance.org/find-certified
and organic database https://www.bioc.info/; for animals, see Animal Welfare Institute
https://awionline.org/content/consumers-guide-food-labels-and-animal-welfare; for Fair
Trade, see https://www.fairtrade.net/product.
30. See https://www.ecolabelindex.com/.
31. See Hannah Ritchie, Pablo Rosado and Max Roser (2022) - “Environmental Impacts
of Food Production” Published online at OurWorldinData.org. Retrieved from:
‘https://ourworldindata.org/environmental-impacts-of-food’ [Online Resource].
32. See Hannah Ritchie (2020) - “Very little of global food is transported by air; this greatly
reduces the climate benefits of eating local” Published online at OurWorldinData.org.
Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/food-transport-by-mode’ [Online
Resource].
33. See Hannah Ritchie (2020) - “Very little of global food is transported by air; this greatly
reduces the climate benefits of eating local” Published online at OurWorldinData.org.
Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/food-transport-by-mode’ [Online Resource].
34. See Hannah Ritchie (2020) - “You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food?
Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local” (see graphic: “Food: greenhouse
gas emissions across the supply chain”). Published online at OurWorldinData.org.
Retrieved from: ‘https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local’ [Online
Resource].
35. See https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/packaging-and-paper/our-insights/
true-packaging-sustainability-understanding-the-performance-trade-offs.
36. See https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-97-0823-9_1.
37. See https://www.genevaenvironmentnetwork.org/resources/updates/overfishing.
38. See https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/
download?doi=10.1.1.473.4780&rep=rep1&type=pdf.
39. See https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03371-z.epdf.
40. See https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/TAR-03.pdf and
https://climatekids.nasa.gov/ocean.
41. See https://www.fao.org/food-loss-and-food-waste/flw-data.
42. See https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023057158.
43. See https://www.ngwa.org/what-is-groundwater/About-groundwater/
44. See https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food-waste_en.
45. See https://ec.europa.eu/food/safety/food_waste/eu_actions/date_marking_en.
46. See https://www.sej.org/headlines/only-60-years-farming-left-if-soil-
47. See https://time.com/4130043/lobbying-politics-dietary-guidelines.
48. See https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-021-00431-5.
49. See Whole Food, Plant-Based Nutrition: A presentation from the T. Colin Campbell
Center for Nutrition Studies.
50. See https://eatforum.org/eat-lancet-commission.
51. See http://eatforum.org/learn-and-discover/the-planetary-health-diet and