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Andrea Cattaneo, Caterina Ruggeri Laderchi, Jessica Fanzo, Danielle Resnick

2024/6/6

The Role of Diets in Reducing Food Systems’ Hidden Costs Page 1 Jessica Fanzo Professor of Climate and Food Director, Food for Humanity Initiative The Columbia Climate School, Columbia University The Role of Diets in Reducing Food Systems’ Hidden Costs Page 2 Page 3 Of the 15 trillion USD/year unaccounted costs of the food system: • Health costs are estimated to contribute 11 trillion USD/year largely from the negative effects of labor productivity. • Much of this is due to diet-related non-communicable diseases that claim 8 million lives annually and 13% of global Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) in 2019 • The health costs also include a lower bound figure for the productivity costs of undernutrition, which affects 735 million people. Page 4 Save 174 million lives by 2050 Page 5 Changes in mortality and obesity with food systems transformations Page 6 Intake of select food groups globally, and in low- …