Healthy diets from sustainable food systems

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Speaker: Dr Marco Springmann, University of Oxford.

Our food system is neither healthy, nor sustainable. Imbalanced diets are the leading risk factor for mortality in the world.

On the other hand, agricultural production that underpins our diets is a major driver of climate change, land-use changes and biodiversity loss, freshwater depletion, as well as air and water pollution.

I will detail these impacts, and discuss possible solutions, including dietary changes towards more plant-based diets, reductions in food loss and waste, and technological improvements and changes in management practices. I highlight how each action along the food chain can play a role in transforming our current food system into one that stays within environmental limits and delivers healthy diets for a growing population.

This lecture is part of our Science in Health Public Lecture Series.

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