Diet for human and planetary health: from methodological considerations to integrated solutions

Sustainable healthy diets have a key role in addressing pressing issues of climate change and human health. Research in this field, but also policy, has traditionally been divided between a “production perspective” and a “consumption perspective”. While in the former the focus is on the agri-food system, and how food can be produced more sustainably, the latter focuses on the composition of diets, and how this can be changed to benefit human and planetary health. In practice, however, diets are inherently connected to the agri-food system and there is a need to better understand how improving agri-food systems links to the composition of diets, and how the composition of diets links to how/which food will be produced. This PhD project looked at which methodological considerations should be made in research from both fields to improved the interdisciplinarity. Secondly, the project implemented some of these methodological considerations to see how this impacts the results for sustainable healthy diets.