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Livestock, Environment And People (LEAP)

Modelling the global health and environmental impacts of sustainable food scenarios 

Funder: Wellcome Trust, (Our Planet Our Health funding stream)
Project dates: Apr 2017 – Mar 2021

This project on the future of animal-sourced foods explored the health and environmental impacts of global consumption of animal-sourced foods. It also investigated the impact of interventions designed to change consumption of animal-sourced foods in light of rising environmental and health concerns.

LEAP was an Oxford University  project led by Charles Godfray from the Department of Zoology and Susan Jebb from the Nuffield Department of Primary Health Care Sciences. The Centre led work on package 1 of the  project, which refined a global health model developed previously by:

  • further disaggregation of animal-sourced foods categories
  • integration of the model with global agricultural economic models
  • disaggregation of impacts by socio-economic status within countries.

The updated model was used to estimate the health and environmental impact of future scenarios, including trade policies and different development and demographic pathways.

Researchers

  • Mike Rayner
    Mike Rayner

    Professor of Population Health and Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre on Population Approaches for Non-Communicable Disease Prevention (CC PNP)

External researchers

Mike Clark

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