Food and health economics and environmental sustainability

Aim:

To assess environmental effects, health economics and environmental sustainability of the NND.

 

Milestones:

• Delineating behavioural models for empirical estimation and testing.
• Delineating the Statistics Denmark register data.
• Developing questionnaire to supplement register data.
• Execution of pre-intervention questionnaire.
• Merging experimental, survey and register data, and establishing the anonymized panel data set for quantitative analysis.
• Econometric modelling end evaluation of effect heterogeneity and dependence on family and intervention characteristics.
• Feeding information from a preliminary database on food item sustainability to the initial development of the NND.
• Development of a new database on environmental effects of food items produced, imported to, and consumed in Denmark.
• Analysis of the sustainability of the NND.
• Communicate the results in a policy-relevant context.
• Assessment of direct cost of school meal interventions based on questionnaires submitted to a sample of Danish operators of school meals, supplemented with expert appraisals and literature findings.
• Assessment of benefits for school children and their families, including aspects such as expenses saved on lunch boxes, convenience etc.
• Assessment of long-term health benefits, including spill-over effects from children to other family members, based on findings from other work packages.
• Assessment of net benefits (or drawbacks) related to environmental impacts derived from the supply of school NND meals, compared with a relevant reference.