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    Is a healthy diet an environmentally sustainable diet?

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    The food system and climate change : are plant-based diets becoming unhealthy and less environmentally sustainable?

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    Financial Support There was no specific funding associated with the preparation of this manuscript. The author’s time is primarily funded through the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services.Peer reviewe

    The environmental impact of nutrition transition in three case study countries

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    Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and the source are credited.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Global agricultural, food and energy price spikes : Impacts on low income households in the United Kingdom and policy options

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    The authors acknowledge the support of Scottish Government ClimateXChange Centre and the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division.Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Attitudes towards, and purchasing of, Scottish beef and beef products in Scotland : A short communication

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    This work was supported by the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division. RESAS had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this article.Peer reviewedPostprin

    Achieving dietary recommendations and reducing greenhouse gas emissions : modelling diets to minimise the change from current intakes

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    Acknowledgements We are grateful to Mr Hubert Ehlert for extending the work on the coding for the linear programming and to Mrs Jennifer Loe for preparing the dataset matching the food consumption data with the GHGE data. Funding This work was supported as part of the research programme funded by the Scottish Government Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services Division [RESAS].Peer reviewedPublisher PD

    Buying less and wasting less food. Changes in household food energy purchases, energy intakes and energy density between 2007 and 2012 with and without adjustment for food waste

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    Acknowledgements Financial support: This work was supported by the Scottish Government’s Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services (RESAS) Division. RESAS had no role in the design, analysis or writing of this article. Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflicts of interest. Kantar Worldpanel had no role in study design or data analysis. Authorship: S.W. was responsible for formulating the research question and analysing the data. G.W.H provided statistical advice. S.W., J.I.M. and G.W.H. contributed to the preparation of the manuscript. Ethics of human subject participation: Not applicable.Peer reviewedPostprin

    Value-elicitation and value-formation properties of discrete choice experiment and experimental auctions

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    Acknowledgements We thank Christian Reynolds for his help in organising sessions and running the experiment at the Scottish Experimental Economics Laboratory (SEEL) at University of Aberdeen. We also thank Sylvia Stephen for her help in creating the recipes for the lasagnes and the professional cooks of the Human Nutrition Unit of the Rowett Institute for preparing the final products. We appreciate comments on the approach from Professor Joseph Swierzbinski. We thank three anonymous reviewers and the editor for comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Funding This research was funded by the Scottish Government – Rural Affairs and the Environment Strategic Research (RESAS) – and the Chief Scientist Office of the Scottish Government Health and Care Directorates.Peer reviewedPostprin

    The impact of climate and societal change on food and nutrition security : a case study of Malawi

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    ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors thank Keith Wiebe and Shahnila Dunston at IFPRI for providing data for use in this study. The authors also thank Heather Clark at the Rowett Institute for her help with the nutrition calculations. Open Access via the Jisc Wiley Agreement Funding information: This work was funded by a PhD studentship for Charlotte Hall from the Scottish Food Security Alliance‐Crops (Universities of Aberdeen and Dundee and the James Hutton Institute) and contributes to the Belmont Forum funded DEVIL and ESPA ASSETS projects (NERC funding contributions: NE/M021327/1 and NE/J002267‐1, respectively). Jennie Macdiarmid acknowledges funding from the Rural and Environment Science and Analytical Services, Scottish Government.Peer reviewedPublisher PD
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