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  • Publication | 2023
Economic, social and environmental spillovers decrease the benefits of a global dietary shift

Dietary shifts are key for enhancing the sustainability of current food systems but need to account for potential economic, social and environmental indirect effects as well. By tracing physical quantities of biomass along supply chains in a global economic model, this article investigates the benefits of adopting the EAT–Lancet diet and other social, economic and environmental spillovers in the wider economy.