Summary
The urgent need to transform dietary patterns to mitigate climate change, biodiversity loss, and other environmental challenges is well-established. While life cycle assessments and footprinting approaches provide valuable insights at the product level, comprehensive evaluations of entire diets are necessary to inform sustainable food choices. This paper presents the Sustainability Assessment of Foods And Diets (SAFAD)-tool, an open-source platform designed to assess the environmental and social impacts of foods and diets across nine European countries. SAFAD extends existing methodologies by offering expanded data coverage, multi-dimensional sustainability indicators, and customizable parameters for enhanced applicability. In its basic configuration, the tool includes footprints of 1804 f
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