{"id":5984,"date":"2019-10-17T10:04:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-17T07:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5984"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:36","slug":"how-changes-in-our-diet-can-help-mitigate-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/17\/how-changes-in-our-diet-can-help-mitigate-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"How Changes in Our Diet Can Help Mitigate Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>By Anne-Sophie Br\u00e4ndlin<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 16 marks World Food Day this year, a day&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/world-food-day\/theme\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">celebrated every year<\/a>&nbsp;by the United Nations&#8217; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">World Food Day is a call to make healthy and sustainable diets affordable and accessible for everyone while nurturing the planet at the same time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But how can this be achieved?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One way, according to a new study, would be to introduce different ways for countries across the world to adapt to their diets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Researchers at the U.S. based Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future looked at diets in 140 countries across the world and measured the ecological impact of their food production in order to identify ways to mitigate climate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study, called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/clf.jhsph.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/2019-09\/country-specific-dietary-shifts-mitigate-climate-and-water-crises.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Country-specific dietary shifts to mitigate climate and water crise<\/em><em>s<\/em><\/a>&nbsp;found that an important first step would be to shift Europe and the United States away from a diet heavy in meat and dairy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But study co-author, Martin Bloem, notes that the solutions needed are not one-size-fits-all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The situation for poorer countries is not the same as for high-income countries and the solutions for high-income countries are much more straight-forward,&#8221; Bloem said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecowatch.com\/climate-change-diet-2640992836.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anne-Sophie Br\u00e4ndlin October 16 marks World Food Day this year, a day&nbsp;celebrated every year&nbsp;by the United Nations&#8217; Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). World Food Day is a call to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}