Abstract
(Englisch)
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Accelerating the transition from animal-based to alternative dietary proteins – the dietary shift – is key to reducing the footprint of ourfood system in terms of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), energy, water and land use, and other relevant environmental impacts, and forimproving the health and well-being of people, animals and the planet. GIANT LEAPS delivers the strategic innovations, methodologies,and open-access datasets to speed up this dietary shift, in line with the Farm-to-Fork strategy and contributing to the Green Deal targetof reaching climate neutrality by 2050. Achieving the dietary shift in practice is inherently complex due to the diverse set of actorsinvolved and further hindered by major knowledge gaps, scattered across the various alternative protein sources and the domains of health(safety, allergenicity and digestibility), environment (GHGs and other environmental and climate impacts, biodiversity, circularity), and/or barriers to adoption (technological, sensory, and consumer acceptance). The GIANT LEAPS consortium consists of the key actors andspans all expertise to address relevant knowledge gaps and proactively engages to arrive at optimized future diets based on alternativeproteins that are broadly accepted across stakeholder groups. In order to deliver required insights for short-, mid- and long-term decisionmaking and impact, GIANT LEAPS protein sources have been selected for either targeted or full assessment based on their current levelof specification. The innovations and improved methods combined with accessible and comprehensive information, generated for a widecollection of alternative proteins, will enable policymakers to prioritise changes in the food system towards the dietary shift based ondesired impact, value chain actors to make strategic scientific, business and investment choices, and the general public to make moresustainable and healthy dietary choices.
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