consumption

May 5 2011
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PBL (Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency) has published a new study which assesses the effects of present European meat, dairy and fish dietary consumption on biodiversity, land use and GHG emissions. The study has also developed a series of...

March 11 2011
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Published by the International Food Research Policy Institute and the World Fish Centre, this book, "Fish to 2020: Supply and Demand in Changing Global markets", projects the likely changes in the fisheries sector over the next two decades.

March 11 2011

The Journal of Cleaner Production has a special issue dedicated to sustainable seafood, with a suite of papers covering a range of topics. The stated purpose of the special issue is to bring together a series of papers that will form a nucleus for the...

March 10 2011
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This report gives valuable data on energy use in a range of fisheries types across the world, showing the energy intensity of fish production. It shows large variability across sectors and within a sector, between locations and fishing methods.

March 7 2011

The Standing Advisory Committee on Nutrition has published its report on Iron and Nutrition. The purpose of the report was to “to review the dietary intakes of iron in its various forms and the impact of different dietary patterns on the nutritional...

March 3 2011

Extracts from a paper (Timilsina G R. Beghin J C van der Mensbrugghe D and Mevel S (2010) 'The impacts of biofuel targets on land-use change and food supply : a global CGE assessment' Policy Research Working Paper, World Bank, Washington DC...

March 3 2011

The US Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service has published a Food Environment Atlas of the US, which provides a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access health food and its success in doing so.

March 3 2011

This paper is by some of the same authors who wrote a paper for Friend of the Earth a few months ago (see mailing of 23/10/10) which modelled the health impact of a lower meat diet. You can read the FoE report...

December 19 2010

EBLEX, the English Beef and Lamb Executive, has published phase 2 of its roadmap, entitled "Testing the Water – The English Beef and Sheep Production Environmental Roadmap – Phase 2".

July 14 2010
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This report, "Strategies for reducing the climate impacts of red meat/dairy consumption in the UK", reflects the findings of an investigation into possible strategies for reducing red meat and dairy consumption in the UK in order to cut greenhouse gas...