Joseph Poore

University of Oxford | OX · Department of Biology

Providing consumers with product-specific environmental impact information for food products (ecolabels) may promote more sustainable purchasing, needed to meet global environmental targets. Two UK studies investigated the effectiveness of different ecolabels using an experimental online supermarket platform. Study 1 (N = 1051 participants) compare...

Providing consumers with product-specific environmental impact information for food products (ecolabels) may promote more sustainable purchasing, needed to meet global environmental targets. Two UK studies investigated the effectiveness of different ecolabels using an experimental online supermarket platform. Study 1 (N=1051 participants) compared...

Objective To analyse the health and environmental implications of adopting national food based dietary guidelines (FBDGs) at a national level and compared with global health and environmental targets. Design Modelling study. Setting 85 countries. Participants Population of 85 countries. Main outcome measures A graded coding method was developed...

The global impacts of food production Food is produced and processed by millions of farmers and intermediaries globally, with substantial associated environmental costs. Given the heterogeneity of producers, what is the best way to reduce food's environmental impacts? Poore and Nemecek consolidated data on the multiple environmental impacts of ∼38,...

Global farmland is shrinking for the first time. Has humanity's land grab ground to a halt, asks ecologist Joseph Poore

The statistics division of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has recently released its national land distribution data for the year 2013 ([ 1 ][1]), which is currently the only annual cross-country time series on agricultural land use. According to these data, over the past 15 years, total