{"id":3343,"date":"2024-06-02T18:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T16:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2024-11-13T14:11:21","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T12:11:21","slug":"food-for-thought-could-swiss-agriculture-provide-healthy-and-sustainable-food-for-its-population","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/2024\/06\/02\/food-for-thought-could-swiss-agriculture-provide-healthy-and-sustainable-food-for-its-population\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Swiss agriculture produce  Planetary Health Diet?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">Gr\u00e9goire Saboret<sup>1<\/sup>, Lo\u00efc Thurre<sup>2<\/sup>, No\u00e9mie Pidoux<sup> 3<\/sup>(2024). Food for Thought: Could Swiss agriculture provide healthy and sustainable food for its population? (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/files\/2024\/06\/Saboret_-Thurre_Pidoux_PHDinSwitzerland__2024.pdf\">PDF<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Planetary Health Diet (PHD) is a reference diet for the entire population aimed at respecting the planetary boundaries for environmental resources while optimizing human\u2019s population health (Willet et al. 2019). &nbsp;Swiss consumption of certain types of food is far from the PHD. This suggests that dietary habits should shift protein sources towards plant-based options, preferably non-transformed such as beans, lentils or soy. This change can\u2019t be triggered without considering a transformation of our agricultural systems. Currently, one-third of Switzerland&#8217;s land is dedicated to agriculture, covering about 1.5 million cultivated hectares, or roughly one hectare per five to six inhabitants. We posed a simple question: Could Swiss agriculture theoretically produce the PHD on this area?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p><em>The report was written during seminar: \u201eSustainable Plant Systems\u201c (<strong>551-0209-00L<\/strong><\/em>) at ETH Zurich<em> in 2023<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>1<\/sup><sup> Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Department of Surface Waters \u2013 Research and Management, Kastanienbaum, Switzerland<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>2 University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences, Plant-Microbe Interactions group, Bernoullistrasse 32, 4056 Basel<\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><sup>3 Faculty of Science, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50, 4056 Basel, Switzerland<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gr\u00e9goire Saboret1, Lo\u00efc Thurre2, No\u00e9mie Pidoux 3(2024). Food for Thought: Could Swiss agriculture provide healthy and sustainable food for its population? (PDF) The Planetary Health Diet (PHD) is a reference diet for the entire population aimed at respecting the planetary boundaries for environmental resources while optimizing human\u2019s population health (Willet et al. 2019). &nbsp;Swiss consumption &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/2024\/06\/02\/food-for-thought-could-swiss-agriculture-provide-healthy-and-sustainable-food-for-its-population\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Could Swiss agriculture produce  Planetary Health Diet?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41437,"featured_media":3346,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216609,271134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agroecology","category-plant-based-proteins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/Science_and_Policy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}