Extended Data Fig. 2: Shifting towards healthy dietary intake levels reduce caloric undernutrition and land use.
From: Solutions to the double burden of malnutrition also generate health and environmental benefits
Bars represent percentage changes in 2050 baseline outcomes caused by shifting towards diets following flexitarian diets pathway (FLX) in the regions in italic and marked with asterisk starting with Central Asia and ending with Japan and Korea. Regions exogenously shifted to the FLX are in italic and marked with an asterisk, food demand patterns in the remaining regions are endogenous. Panel a represents the percentage change in global crop price, panel b represents reductions in undernutrition headcounts in those regions where diets are endogenously determined as a function of prices, and panel c represents changes in cropland use. Coloured segments of each bar decompose the total change into three different components of the shift from current food demand levels: the change within the food basket composition (that is, the FLX scenario implies reductions in livestock demand with respect to the baseline case), reductions in food intake, and reductions in food waste3.
