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Abstract
The increasing global demand for food requires land, water, nitrogen, phosphorus and other resources or inputs, and it leads to harmful outcomes such as greenhouse gas emissions and biodiversity loss. In addition, increased attention on food health, particularly in the Mediterranean urban areas, raises key nutrition challenges related to malnutrition, obesity, and chronic disease. The main objective of this study is to develop a governance procedure to help policymakers promote the most suitable dietary pattern in the region of Valencia. Assessing diets is the focus of the current study, throughout the integration of sustainability concept into a chosen multi-criteria decision making method, particularly the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) which enabled consistent comparison of four theoretical dietary patterns that could shape food strategies in the Valencia metropolitan area; Mediterranean dietary pattern, Flexitarian, Pescatarian, and Vegan.
Two stages were completed to apply the method: the individual interviews and the workshop. In the first stage, we tested the experts’ judgments regarding the three criteria of environmental impact, health value and socioeconomic factors. Two pairs of sub-criteria associated with the environmental impact and socioeconomic factors were also considered. According to the 25 experts who participated and their judgments were tested in the first stage, the main determinant of the sustainability of diets was the health and nutritional value of the diet followed by its environmental impact and then socioeconomic factors