Diets and dietary scenarios in food system modelling

Summary

In this presentation I will touch on how to capture dietary patterns and dietary scenarios in food system models that are often set up on a production/agronomic basis. Among other topics, I will address the potential mismatch between the form detailed diets are reported in vs. the activities and commodities covered in food system models, the discrepancies that may arise when using LCA footprint data for investigating impacts of diets vs. doing fully consistent food systems calculations to derive sustainability impacts of diets, or discrepancies that may arise between sustainability and health requirements of diets and agronomic boundary conditions of agricultural production.