Mathilde Touvier

Santé publique 2022-2023

Collège de France

Colloque - Nutritional Determinants of Health: Recent Research Discoveries and Translation into Public Health Action : Food and the Planet: Is a Healthy Diet Environmentally Sustainable?

Intervenant(s)

Dr Tara Garnett, Director, TABLE, University of Oxford

Résumé

Food systems are responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, and are the main drivers of deforestation, biodiversity loss and unsustainable water use. At the same time, our growing global population suffers from both new and emerging health problems arising from the way we produce, distribute and consume food.

Recent years have seen intense research focus on understanding the connections between dietary health and environmental sustainability, and in assessing whether a healthy diet is compatible with efforts to meet our climate and other environmental targets. This presention argues that the 'answer' to this question depends, in part on how health is defined and which aspects of the food system are seen to be capable of change.

Tara Garnett

Tara is a researcher at the University of Oxford, and the Director of TABLE, a global platform for thinking and dialogue on key debates about the future of food. TABLE facilitates informed discussions about how the food system can become sustainable, resilient, and just. Tara's work centres on the interactions among food, climate, health and broader sustainability issues; she has a particular interest in livestock as a sector where many of these converge. She is also interested in how knowledge is communicated to and interpreted by policy makers, NGOs and industry, and in the values these different stakeholders bring to food problems and possible solutions.