Treenuts and groundnuts in the EAT-Lancet reference diet: Concerns regarding sustainable water use.

ABSTRACT: The EAT-Lancet universal healthy reference diet recommends an increase in the consumption of healthy foods, among which treenuts and groundnuts. Both are, however, water-intensive products, with a large water footprint (WF) per unit of mass and protein and already today contribute to blue water stress in different parts of the world. The envisaged massive required increase in nut production to feed a global population with this reference diet, needs to occur in a water-sustainable way. In this paper, we identify and quantify where current nut production contributes to local blue water stress and discuss options for water-sustainable nut production. We show that 74% of irrigated nuts are produced under blue water stress (of which 63% under severe water stress), throughout many regions of th

SUBMITTER: Vanham D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7063698 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature