Estimating the environmental impact of diets based on individual-level dietary intake data: infographics on the FAO/WHO GIFT platform

Victoria  Padula de Quadros; Jacqueline Tereza Da Silva; Agnieszka  Balcerzak; Pauline  Allemand; Catherine  Leclercq; Marika  Ferrari; Ximena Schmidt  Rivera; Christian  Reynolds; Bridget A. Holmes

doi:10.3389/fsufs.2025.1662566

Estimating the environmental impact of diets based on individual-level dietary intake data: infographics on the FAO/WHO GIFT platform

Victoria Padula de Quadros, Jacqueline Tereza Da Silva, Agnieszka Balcerzak, Pauline Allemand, Catherine Leclercq, Marika Ferrari, Ximena Schmidt Rivera, Christian Reynolds, Bridget A. Holmes

Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies

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Integrating environmental impacts into dietary assessment is crucial to promote healthy diets from sustainable food systems. Nonetheless, the environmental impacts of individual dietary intake are rarely reported. This paper describes how environmental impacts are integrated into dietary data through the FAO/WHO Global Individual Food Consumption Data Tool (FAO/WHO GIFT). The environmental infographics available on FAO/WHO GIFT offer a user-friendly interface to understand the average footprint of diets, identifying contributing food groups, and exploring variations in environmental impacts. The infographics present estimates for three environmental indicators - greenhouse gas emissions, water use, and land use of dietary intake, allowing users to assess the environmental implications of different diets. Tools to monitor and assess dietary environmental impact, such as those offered by FAO/WHO GIFT, are essential for informing transformation towards healthy diets from sustainable food systems.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-8
Number of pages	8
Journal	Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Volume	9
Early online date	10 Dec 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1662566
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 10 Dec 2025

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food systems
healthy diets
dietary assessment
environmental impacts
greenhouse gas emissions
water use
land use

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Padula de Quadros, V., Tereza Da Silva, J., Balcerzak, A., Allemand, P., Leclercq, C., Ferrari, M., Rivera, X. S., Reynolds, C., & Holmes, B. A. (2025). Estimating the environmental impact of diets based on individual-level dietary intake data: infographics on the FAO/WHO GIFT platform. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 9, 1-8. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1662566

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