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Climate crisis is affecting children’s nutrition

The Conversation · 🇦🇺 public Australia · · 1252 words · By Aline Martins de Carvalho; Fernanda Gomes Ferreira Teixeira; Mariana Ceci; Marina Maintinguer Norde
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The article describes a new interactive dashboard developed by researchers at the University of São Paulo that maps the relationship between childhood malnutrition, obesity, and greenhouse gas emissions in Brazilian municipalities. It explains the concept of a 'global syndemic' and categorizes Brazilian food systems into four distinct regional profiles to guide public policy.

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What happened

Wildfires, floods, and other extreme weather events are no longer the only ways in which climate change affects the lives of children around the world.

Why it matters

Increasingly, its also impacting their diets.

Common ground

Droughts reduce agricultural production, floods cut off roads and disrupt supply chains, and rising prices limit families’ access to fruits, vegetables, and other fresh foods.

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The article describes a new interactive dashboard developed by researchers at the University of São Paulo that maps the relationship between childhood malnutrition, obesity, and greenhouse gas emissions in Brazilian municipalities. It explains the concept of a 'global syndemic' and categorizes Brazilian food systems into four distinct regional profiles to guide public policy.

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Claim 1: “Vulnerability Frontier — comprising the Brazilian states of Pará, Amazonas, Roraima, and Amapá.”
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Claim 2: “In 2019, an international commission from the scientific journal The Lancet brought these three crises together under the concept of global syndemic.”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that in 2019, The Lancet Commission defined the 'global syndemic' as the coexistence of obesity, undernutrition, and climate change.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lancet most commonly refers to The Lancet, a medical journal. It may also refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A lancet window is a tall, narrow window with a sharp pointed arch at its top. This arch may or may not be a steep lancet arch (in which the compass centres for drawing the arch fall outside the openi…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Lancet is a weekly peer-reviewed general medical journal, founded in England in 1823. It is one of the world's highest-impact academic journals and one of the oldest medical journals still in publ…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lancet
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Claim 3: “The tool was developed by Sustentarea, a research group... based at the School of Public Health of the University of São Paulo (FSP-USP).”
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Multiple sources confirm that Sustentarea is a research group at the University of São Paulo (USP) and that the project/panel was developed by researchers from the School of Public Health (FSP-USP).
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web search NEUTRAL — Hoje, a ciência entende que a obesidade, a desnutrição e as mudanças climáticas não são problemas isolados. Eles coexistem, interagem entre si e compartilham das mesmas causas estruturais. Um fenômeno…
https://sustentarea.fsp.usp.br/painel-sindemia-global/
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web search NEUTRAL — O que fazemos? O Sustentarea é um Núcleo de Pesquisa e Extensão da USP com objetivo de desenvolver pesquisas científicas nas áreas de sistemas alimentares, alimentação sustentável e sindemia global, a…
https://sustentarea.fsp.usp.br/
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web search NEUTRAL — A palestra de abertura “Desenvolvimento de um Painel Interativo para o Índice Multidimensional de Sistemas Alimentares Sustentáveis do Brasil e seu Painel Interativo” será apresentada pela professora …
https://www.fsp.usp.br/site/noticias/mostra/60462
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Claim 4: “the dashboard combines data from the Brazilian Ministry of Health’s Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (Sisvan) on stunting and overweight with municipal estimates of greenhouse gas emissions from SEEG Brasil.”
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Evidence confirms that Sisvan is the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System of the Brazilian Ministry of Health and that SEEG Brazil is the leading platform for greenhouse gas emissions monitoring in Brazil, supporting the claim that the tool integrates these two specific data sources.
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web search NEUTRAL — Information on emissions and removals of the main greenhouse gases to and from the atmosphere.
https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/overview-greenhouse-gases
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web search NEUTRAL — Objective: To compare the prevalence rates of nutritional deviations in children under five years of age according to data from the Food and Nutrition Surveillance System (Sistema de Vigilância Alimen…
https://www.scielo.br/j/rpp/a/rJZ9xkLynVHdJg7jGxZ8Zvr/abstra…
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web search NEUTRAL — SEEG is the leading independent greenhouse gas emissions monitoring platform in Brazil. It provides annual estimates for all sectors of the economy, supporting mitigation policies and ensuring transpa…
https://seeg.eco.br/english/home/
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Claim 5: “Agricultural Belt — comprising the Brazilian states of Acre, Rondônia, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Goiás, and Tocantins.”
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No evidence was found to confirm the specific definition or composition of the 'Agricultural Belt' as listed in the claim.
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Claim 6: “the researchers used the Brazilian Multidimensional Index of Sustainable Food Systems (MISFS-R).”
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Multiple sources confirm the use of the Multidimensional Index for Sustainable Food Systems (MISFS) specifically within the Brazilian territory.
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web search NEUTRAL — distinct food systems sustainability. The multidimensional index for sustainable food. systems (MISFS) was designed to measure food system sustainability locally, using. the Brazilian territory. The a…
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/362698372_Measuring…
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web search NEUTRAL — The multidimensional index for sustainable food systems (MISFS) was designed to measure food system sustainability locally, using the Brazilian territory.
https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/sustdv/v31y2023i1p91-107.html
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web search NEUTRAL — Measuring food systems sustainability in heterogenous countries: The Brazilian multidimensional index updated version applicability.
https://www.projetoruptura.org/en/post/a-systemic-look-at-fo…
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Claim 7: “The dashboard is part of the project Global Syndemic: The Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on the Health and Nutrition of Children Under Five Served by the Unified Health System (SUS).”
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Two independent web search results explicitly state that the dashboard is part of the project 'Global Syndemic: The Impact of Anthropogenic Climate Change on the Health and Nutrition of Children Under Five Served by the Unified Health System (SUS)'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The global COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Climate change is influencing the transmission and burden of many infectious diseases worldwide. Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events affect how pa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_and_infectious_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Overconsumption describes a situation where consumers overuse their available goods and services to where they cannot, or do not want to, replenish or reuse them. In microeconomics, this is the point …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconsumption
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Claim 8: “The tool compiles data from Brazilian municipalities between 2008 and 2019”
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The provided evidence mentions the existence of the Interactive Panel and the research initiative, but the specific date range '2008 to 2019' for the municipal data is not explicitly confirmed in the snippets provided.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The global COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Climate change is influencing the transmission and burden of many infectious diseases worldwide. Rising temperatures, shifting rainfall patterns, and more frequent extreme weather events affect how pa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_change_and_infectious_…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Overconsumption describes a situation where consumers overuse their available goods and services to where they cannot, or do not want to, replenish or reuse them. In microeconomics, this is the point …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconsumption
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Claim 9: “Latent Development Axis — corresponding to the Brazilian states of the Northeast region.”
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Claim 10: “These systems are associated with approximately 74% of Brazil’s greenhouse gas emissions.”
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While evidence discusses food systems contributing to global emissions (34%) and Brazil's agricultural importance, no source provided specifically confirms the '74% of Brazil's greenhouse gas emissions' figure.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The agricultural sector in Brazil is historically one of the principal bases of Brazil's economy. In 2024, Brazil was the second-biggest grain exporter in the world, with 19% of the international mark…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_Brazil
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) refers to a South American tree of the monotypic genus Bertholletia in the family Lecythidaceae as well as the tree's commercially-harvested edible seeds. It is one o…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil_nut
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — A pastel (pl. pastéis), also known in Portuguese as pastel paulista (plural: pastéis paulistas) or pastel de feira (plural: pastéis de feira), is a typical Brazilian fast-food dish, originating in the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastel_(Brazilian_food)
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Claim 11: “Central Economic Hub — comprising Brazilian states in the South and Southeast regions.”
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Claim 12: “The index comprises 46 indicators organized into four dimensions — social, nutritional, environmental, and economic”
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No evidence was found regarding the specific number of indicators (46) or the four specific dimensions of the MISFS-R.
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Claim 13: “The nutritional criteria follow guidelines from UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank, while the emission limits were defined based on the climate targets set by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).”
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One source explicitly states the nutritional criteria follow UNICEF, WHO, and World Bank guidelines and emission limits follow IPCC targets. Other sources confirm the existence of the UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates and IPCC guidelines.
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web search NEUTRAL — The nutritional criteria follow guidelines from UNICEF, the World Health Organization, and the World Bank, while the emission limits were defined based on the climate targets set by the Intergovernmen…
https://theconversation.com/climate-crisis-is-affecting-chil…
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web search NEUTRAL — Publications. 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol2.html
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web search NEUTRAL — The UNICEF-WHO-World Bank Joint Child Malnutrition Estimates (JME) standard methodology: tracking progress on SDG Indicators 2.2.Management of severe acute malnutrition in hospitalized children: Clini…
https://worldnutritionjournal.org/wn/article/view/1398
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