Diet change: the impact on agriculture and ecological conditions

Expert interview with the 2020 Alpro Foundation Award winner Perrine Laroche. The interview explores the urgent need for large-scale dietary change, what should that change be and how it would impact on global agriculture and ecological conditions.

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Slide from Perrine Laroche's webinar on diet change

Summary

This in-depth interview explores the research by Perrine Laroche, Alpro Foundation award winner 2020.

Perrine explains how a shift towards more plant-based sustainable diets will impact on land-use and the potential positive and negative ecological impacts of this across the globe.

Perrine also provides some options to help mitigate adverse consequences at local level that could produce barriers to shifting towards more sustainable diets.

Alpro Foundation award winner 2020.

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Speakers

Host: Ursula Arens, Freelance Nutrition Writer

Perrine Laroche, PhD student in the Environmental Geography group at IVM VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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