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Climate-Smart Agriculture

Healthy and sustainable diets from today to 2050—The role of international trade

SOURCE: Plos One
| 2022

We characterize the food system using a set of metrics based upon the EAT-Lancet commission dietary guidelines for both over- and under-consumption of different foods to assess country-level dietary health and sustainability in tandem. Using a partial equilibrium model of agricultural production and trade, we then project the functioning of the global agricultural system to 2050 and calculate the metrics for that year

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