Here we have tried to collate some evidence based papers and reports on plant-based diets, health, sustainability and growth. We hope these are useful and please do let us know of any that you think we should add.
Shift to plant-based diets / growth of the sector
- Dietary choices of Brits (e.g. vegetarian, flexitarian, meat-eater etc)
- The magic money plant? Meat alternatives category report 2021
- Plant-based foods in Europe: How big is the market?
- What is making flexitarians in the US and UK shift towards a meatless diet? | YouGov
- Worldwide growth of veganism
- Consumers and the Transition to Sustainable Food – BEUC
- UN Environment Programme What’s Cooking
Sustainability and climate change
- Climate Change Committee: Joint Recommendations 2021 Report to Parliament
- 5 Ways Eating More Plant-Based Foods Benefits the Environment – One Green Planet
- How Much Does Our Food Contribute To Global Warming? New Research Reveals All (forbes.com)
- Will plant-based diets lead to a more sustainable future? – FoodBev Media
- Food systems are responsible for a third of global anthropogenic GHG emissions,
- Climate change widespread, rapid, and intensifying – IPCC
- Food system impacts on biodiversity loss | Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank
- Climate Change and Land Report – IPCC
- Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems – The Lancet
- Health and nutritional aspects of sustainable diet strategies and their association with environmental impacts: a global modelling analysis with country-level detail – The Lancet Planetary Health
- Evaluation of the livestock sector’s contribution to the EU greenhouse gas emissions (GGELS) – Publications Office of the EU
- Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers – science.org
- The Sustainable Farm – does it exist? – Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
- Options for keeping the food system within environmental limits | Nature
- Behaviour Change, Public Engagement and Net Zero – Dr RIchard Carmichael
Diet, health and nutrition
- Vegetarian, vegan diets and multiple health outcomes: A systematic review with meta-analysis of observational studies, Critical Reviews in Food Science and Nutrition
- Beyond Meatless, the Health Effects of Vegan Diets: Findings from the Adventist Cohorts, Nutrients
- Saturated fats and health, Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition, 2019
- Ultra-processing foods for health and sustainability: ‘Whether you like it or not, processed food is here to stay’, 2022
- Vegetarian diets, low-meat diets and health: a review – PubMed
- Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets – PubMed
- Analysis and valuation of the health and climate change cobenefits of dietary change | PNAS
- Multiple health and environmental impacts of foods | PNAS
Overarching