The EAT-Lancet Commission report released in early October had found that a global shift towards \u201chealthier\u201d diets could cut non-CO2 greenhouse gas emissions, such as methane, from agriculture by 15 per cent by 2050. The healthy diet concept was first introduced in the 2019 report from the EAT-Lancet Commission and the subsequent findings build on the same report.<\/p>\n
But the new IFPRI analysis once again brings to the forefront critical concerns about the unintended consequences of broad-scale dietary shifts on lower- or middle-income countries and vulnerable populations.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
The new study found that even if caloric needs were met, transitioning to a 2025 EAT\u2013Lancet\u00a0Commission diet might not ensure micronutrient adequacy. While improvements could be seen in nutrient availability for folate, iron and zinc, there could be a possible decline in vitamin A nutrient availability driven by lower intake of animal-source foods and roots and tubers, the findings showed.<\/p>\n
In addition, the paper also said that while in 2020 the share of income spent on food was 42 per cent in lower-income countries, compared with 21 per cent in higher-income countries, by 2050, this share reduced to 25 per cent and 9 per cent in lower-income and higher-income countries, respectively.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
This gap was slightly narrowed but the share of income spent on food remained relatively high in lower-income regions. So, populations in these countries will continue to have less flexibility in their household budgets to shift their existing food basket towards the 2025 EAT\u2013Lancet\u00a0Commission-recommended diet.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
\u201cThese disparities suggest the need for structural policy responses, such as investments in public food provisioning, especially for fruits and vegetables and legumes, nuts and seeds in lower-income countries, which could help ease the pressure on household food budgets under the SSP2+DIET scenario (sustainable diet as suggested by EAT Lancet report),\u201d said the study.\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The EAT-Lancet Commission report released in early October had found that a global shift towards \u201chealthier\u201d diets could…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269360,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49394,156790,64,63,41262,1298,62122,156791,8168,137,14751,156794,156795,532,156792,156789,92802,156793,14746,21821],"class_list":{"0":"post-269359","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-affordability","9":"tag-animal-protein","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-cost","13":"tag-diet","14":"tag-east-africa","15":"tag-eat-lancet","16":"tag-fish","17":"tag-health","18":"tag-meat","19":"tag-non-veg","20":"tag-non-vegetarian","21":"tag-nutrition","22":"tag-nutritional-deficiency","23":"tag-plant-based-diet","24":"tag-south-asia","25":"tag-veg","26":"tag-vegan","27":"tag-vegetarian"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269359\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}