Pressure on Global Forests: Implications of Rising Vegetable Oils Consumption Under the EAT-Lancet Diet.

ABSTRACT: Global food production faces significant challenges, acting as a primary driver of land use change, biodiversity loss, and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, while a significant part of the world's population still struggles with food security and nutrition. In response, the EAT-Lancet Commission has proposed a healthy and sustainable planetary diet aimed at reducing resource-intensive foods like meat, starchy vegetables, and eggs, while suggesting a 67% increase in global per capita unsaturated oil consumption (e.g., soybean, sunflower, rapeseed) and the maintenance of the current palm oil intake. Using a spatially explicit land allocation algorithm, we assess how future global food oil demand for the expected 9.2 billion people by 2050 might impact forests and other carbon-rich ecosystems,

SUBMITTER: Chiriaco MV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11840662 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature