Designing a healthy, low-cost and environmentally sustainable food basket: an optimisation study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Sustainable diets are diets with low environmental impacts and high affordability which contribute to food and nutrition security. The present study aimed to develop a healthy, low-cost and environmental-friendly food basket for Iran based on current consumption.

Design

The Households Income and Expenditure Survey data were used. Linear Programming was utilised to obtain the optimal diets, separately, for each goal of the sustainable food basket: (1) Diet with maximum Nutrient Rich Food (NRF) index, (2) Diet with minimum cost, (3) Diet with the minimum water footprint and (4) Diet with the minimum carbon footprint. Goal Programming techniques were used to optimise the sustainable food basket by considering all goals simultaneously.

Setting

Iran.

Participa

SUBMITTER: Eini-Zinab H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195622 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature