This work package aims to assess the impact of pulse-enhanced foods on land use, environment, profitability, nutrition, and health interactions. Complex trade-offs exist, including price and consumer preferences affecting outcomes. A modeling approach will analyze these interactions due to changes in bread recipes.
Tasks include:
- Land Use and Economics: Using an agricultural sector model (LUAM) to study pulse-enhanced food market scenarios’ effects on land use, input use, and income.
- Environmental Assessment: Evaluating pulse production and processing environmental impacts through Life Cycle Assessment with field trial, supply chain, and expert data.
- Yield Variability: Integrating data from Work Package 1 and stakeholders to understand historic faba bean yield and quality variability across time and space.
- Nutrition-Health Links: Analyzing nutrition-health connections related to pulse-enriched bread and dietary improvements for key health outcomes.
- Systems Model: Developing a Bayesian Network model to synthesize project findings, mapping causal interactions for environmental, economic, nutrition, and health outcomes. The model will identify interventions to enhance multiple outcomes.