Estimating the environmental impact of diets based on individual-level dietary intake data: infographics on the FAO/WHO GIFT platform
de Quadros, V. P., Tereza da Silva, J., Balcerzak, A. , Allemand, P., Leclercq, C., Ferrari, M., Schmidt Rivera, X., Reynolds, C. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-1073-7394 & Holmes, B. A. (2025).
Estimating the environmental impact of diets based on individual-level dietary intake data: infographics on the FAO/WHO GIFT platform.
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 9,
article number 1662566.
doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2025.1662566
Abstract
Integrating environmental impacts into dietary assessment is crucial to promote healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Nonetheless, the environmental impacts of individual dietary intake are rarely reported. This paper describes how environmental impacts are integrated into dietary data through the FAO/WHO Global Individual Food Consumption Data Tool (FAO/WHO GIFT). The environmental infographics available on FAO/WHO GIFT offer a user-friendly interface to understand the average footprint of diets, identifying contributing food groups, and exploring variations in environmental impacts. The infographics present estimates for three environmental indicators - greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and land use of dietary intake, allowing users to assess the environmental implications of different diets. Tools to monitor and assess dietary environmental impact, such as those offered by FAO/WHO GIFT, are essential for informing transformation towards healthy diets from sustainable food systems.
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| Additional Information: | © 2025 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Publisher Keywords: | food systems, healthy diets, dietary assessment, environmental impacts, greenhouse gas emissions, water use, land use |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Departments: | School of Health & Medical Sciences School of Health & Medical Sciences > Department of Population Health & Policy |
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