Socio-economic, environmental and health trade-offs in Bangladesh’s food system transformation

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cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR international instituteen_US
cg.authorship.typesNot CGIAR developing country instituteen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationWageningen University & Researchen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Researchen_US
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Institute for Applied Systems Analysisen_US
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden_US
cg.contributor.donorWageningen University & Researchen_US
cg.contributor.initiativeSustainable Healthy Dietsen_US
cg.coverage.countryBangladeshen_US
cg.coverage.iso3166-alpha2BDen_US
cg.coverage.regionAsiaen_US
cg.coverage.regionSouthern Asiaen_US
cg.howPublishedGrey Literatureen_US
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4411544/v1en_US
cg.reviewStatusInternal Reviewen_US
cg.subject.actionAreaSystems Transformationen_US
cg.subject.impactAreaNutrition, health and food securityen_US
dc.contributor.authorde Lange, Thijsen_US
dc.contributor.authorvan Dijk, Michielen_US
dc.contributor.authorKuiper, Marijkeen_US
dc.contributor.authorvan Zeist, Willem-Janen_US
dc.contributor.authorBartelings, Heleenen_US
dc.contributor.authorMizan, Arefinen_US
dc.contributor.authorvan Meijl, Hansen_US
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-15T17:24:32Zen_US
dc.date.available2025-01-15T17:24:32Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/169134en_US
dc.titleSocio-economic, environmental and health trade-offs in Bangladesh’s food system transformationen_US
dcterms.abstractThe transition to healthier diets might be accompanied by trade-offs that occur in other parts of the food system. In this study the trade-offs between socio-economic, environmental, and health indicators were analyzed in different dietary scenarios for Bangladesh between 2022 and 2050. We used a global economic simulation model with updated national food consumption data, extended with a footprint module to track environmental impacts through the food value chain in Bangladesh and its trading partners. The study compares a business-as-usual (BAU) diet with the EAT-Lancet diet and the Bangladesh food-based dietary guidelines (FBDG). The BAU diet has a higher intake of animal products and sugar, and a lower intake of vegetables, fruits, legumes and nuts than the EAT-Lancet and FBDG diets. It was found that promoting a diet with more plant-based proteins would have a strong positive impact on dietary health and an overall positive impact on the environment compared to the BAU scenario, due to the reduced impact of animal protein production on greenhouse gas emissions and the reduced impact of rice production on water use and nitrogen application. In addition, the transition to sustainable and healthy diets had minor impacts on the wages of low-skilled workers, Bangladesh’s self-sufficiency, and the affordability of food and cereals. In particular, the FDBG diet scenario scored best on self-sufficiency and cereal affordability compared to the other two scenarios, and the increase in low-skilled wages was comparable to the BAU diet scenario.en_US
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Accessen_US
dcterms.audienceAcademicsen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationde Lange, Thijs; van Dijk, Michiel; Kuiper, Marijke; van Zeist, Willem-Jan; et al. 2024. Socio-economic, environmental and health trade-offs in Bangladesh’s food system transformation. Preprint available May 14, 2024. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4411544/v1en_US
dcterms.issued2024-05-14en_US
dcterms.languageenen_US
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0en_US
dcterms.subjectenvironmenten_US
dcterms.subjecthealthen_US
dcterms.subjectsocioeconomic aspectsen_US
dcterms.subjectfood systemsen_US
dcterms.typePreprinten_US

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