Summary
This modelling study from an international research consortium examines integrated policy scenarios for transforming China's food system through bundled agricultural, trade, and dietary interventions. Using integrated assessment modelling approaches, the authors quantify environmental and nutritional co-benefits and trade-offs at national scale, with particular attention to distributional impacts across social groups. The work contributes to understanding how coordinated policy measures might achieve environmental sustainability whilst addressing nutritional adequacy in a major global food system.
UK applicability
Whilst this study focuses on China's specific agricultural, trade, and dietary context, the methodological framework for assessing bundled policy interventions and their co-benefits across environmental and social dimensions may inform UK policy discussions around sustainable food system transformation. Direct transferability of findings is limited owing to differences in agricultural structure, dietary patterns, and policy levers between the two nations.
Key measures
Environmental metrics (as suggested by co-benefits assessment), nutritional outcomes, and social distributional impacts across population groups
Outcomes reported
The study quantified environmental and nutritional co-benefits and trade-offs across bundled policy interventions affecting agricultural production, trade, and dietary patterns in China. The analysis assessed distributional impacts across social groups at national scale.
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