Diets for the Nordic countries based on the principle of ’ecological leftovers’

Period

During 2016-2017

Beskrivning

The objective of the project is to develop a set of Nordic diets based on the concept of producing livestock on ‘ecological leftovers’ (Garnett, 2015; Garnett, 2009; Röös et al., 2015). In this approach the ecological resource capacity is the constraining factor for livestock production, i.e. animal feed is restricted to feed resources not suitable for human consumption, such as grass from marginal land unsuited for other production and by-products from crop production and food processing, thus also recycling resources and managing landscapes.

This concept was operationalised for Swedish conditions by Röös et al. (2015). This project will develop diets for the Nordic context for the year 2030 based on this principle and following the methodology and data used in Röös et al. (2015) with some modifications.  Diets for each country (Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Norway) will be developed as well as one diet for the whole region. Environmental assessment of the diets will be performed as well as a quantification of the need for nutrients to be recycled. Nutritional aspects and expected health outcomes will be studied in a Master Thesis project in cooperation with KI.

Finansiering

AirClim and ET

Projektledare

Elin Röös

Medlemmar

Johan Karlsson, Institutionen för energi och teknik, Mikaela Patel, Department of Animal Nutrition and Management, SLU, Georg Carlsson, Department of Biosystems and Technology, SLU Tove Sjunnestrand, master student in nutrition at Karolinska Institutet

Publikationer

Karlsson, J., Röös, E., Sjunnestrand, T., Pira, K., Larsson, M., Andersen, B. H., Brubæk, S. (2017). Future Nordic Diets: Exploring ways for sustainably feeding the Nordics. Copenhagen: Nordisk Ministerråd. doi: 10.6027/TN2017-566 http://norden.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1163192&dswid=-6688

Karlsson JO, Röös E (2019) Resource-efficient use of land and animals—Environmental impacts of food systems based on organic cropping and avoided food-feed competition. Land Use Policy 85, 63-72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.03.035 

Karlsson J, Carlsson G, Lindberg M, Sjunnestrand T, Röös E (2018) Designing a future food vision for the Nordics through a participatory modeling approach. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 38:59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13593-018-0528-0