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Títol: Which diet has the lower water footprint in Mediterranean countries?
Autoria: Vanham, Davy
Guenther, Susann
Ros Baró, Marta
Bach-Faig, Anna  
Altres: Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC)
Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Citació: Vanham, D., Guenther, S., Ros-Baró, M., & Bach-Faig, A. (2021). Which diet has the lower water footprint in Mediterranean countries? Resources, Conservation and Recycling, 171, 105631. https://doi.org/10.1016/J.RESCONREC.2021.105631
Resum: The Mediterranean region is increasingly water scarce, with the food system being the largest driver of water use. We calculate the water resources related to food consumption in nine major Mediterranean countries, by means of the water footprint (WF), for the existing situation (period 2011-2013) as well as the Mediterranean and EAT-Lancet diets. We account for different food intake requirements according to gender and six age groups. These nine countries - Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria and Morocco - represent 88% of the population of all countries bordering the Mediterranean. As first major observation, we find that the EAT-Lancet diet, a scientifically optimised diet for both nutrition and certain environmental indicators, requires less water resources than the Mediterranean diet, a culturally accepted diet within the region. In terms of water resources use, adherence to the former is thus more beneficial than adherence to the latter. As second major observation, we find that the EAT-Lancet diet reduces the current WF for all nations consistently, within the range -17% to -48%, whereas the Mediterranean diet reduces the WF of the European countries, Turkey, Egypt and Morocco within the range of -4% to -35%. For the Maghreb countries Tunisia and Algeria, the Mediterranean diet WF is slightly higher compared to the current WF and the proportions of food product groups differ. Such dietary shifts would be important parts of the solution to obtain the sustainable use of water resources in Mediterranean countries.
Paraules clau: Water footprint
Sustainable diet
Mediterranean diet
EAT-Lancet diet
Water resources
Food system
DOI: 10.1016/j.resconrec.2021.105631
Tipus de document: info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Data de publicació: 2-ago-2021
Llicència de publicació: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/  
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