Project

Scenarios for a sustainable Swiss food industry

In the framework of the federal research program “Healthy Nutrition and Sustainable Food Production”, Rütter Soceco, now part of EBP, acted as a research consortium member in two projects. The first project used a model to assess the environmental impact of the Swiss food system. In the second project we used this model in combination with others to determine the impact that various food-industry-development scenarios would have on overall sustainability by the year 2050 as measured by global sustainability indicators.

Our services

Development of an environmentally-extended input-output model with detailed data on the Swiss food system and approx. 100 environmental indicators
Application of the model to analyze the Swiss food system’s environmental impact
Expansion of the input-output model to include social indicators
Drafting of various scenarios of the Swiss food system’s development to 2050
Evaluation of the impacts measured with global sustainability indicators