Wang, Xiaoxi;
Cai, Hao;
Xuan, Jiaqi;
Du, Ruiying;
Lin, Bin;
Bodirsky, Benjamin Leon;
Stevanović, Miodrag;
... Lotze-Campen, Hermann; + view all
(2025)
Bundled measures for China’s food system transformation reveal social and environmental co-benefits.
Nature Food
, 6
pp. 72-84.
10.1038/s43016-024-01100-z.
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Abstract
Food systems are essential for the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in China. Here, using an integrated assessment modelling framework that considers country-specific pathways and covers 18 indicators, we find that most social and environmental targets for the Chinese food system under current trends are not aligned with the United Nations Agenda 2030. We further quantify the impacts of multiple measures, revealing potential trade-offs in pursuing strategies aimed at public health, environmental sustainability and livelihood improvement in isolation. Among the individual packages of measures, a shift towards healthy diets exhibits the lowest level of trade-offs, leading to improvements in nutrition, health, environment and livelihoods. In contrast, focusing efforts on climate change mitigation and ecological conservation, or promoting faster socioeconomic development alone, have trade-offs between social and environmental outcomes. These trade-offs could be minimized by bundling all three aspects of measures.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Bundled measures for China’s food system transformation reveal social and environmental co-benefits |
| Location: | England |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1038/s43016-024-01100-z |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01100-z |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > Institute for Global Health |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10207900 |
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