Publications

Anne Charlotte Bunge, Michael Clark, Line J. Gordon. 2025. “Fika in the Anthropocene”: leveraging food systems transformations through food cultures. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-025-01680-0

The role of food cultures in food systems transformations is gaining prominence in scholarly discourse. However, several food cultures rely on products with substantial environmental and socio-economic impacts and risks, raising questions about their potential role in transformation processes toward more sustainable food systems. One such example constitutes the Swedish Fika , the daily practice of having coffee and pastries...

Anne Charlotte Bunge, Rachel Mazac, Michael Clark, Line Gordon. 2025. Emerging alternatives to coffee, cocoa and palm oil deserve a spot on the research agenda. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-024-01103-w

Anne Charlotte Bunge, Rachel Mazac, Michael Clark, Amanda Wood, Line Gordon. 2024. Author Correction: Sustainability benefits of transitioning from current diets to plant-based alternatives or whole-food diets in Sweden. Nature Communications. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47901-5

Bunge, A.C., Mazac, R., Clark, M. et al. Sustainability benefits of transitioning from current diets to plant-based alternatives or whole-food diets in Sweden. Nat Commun 15, 951 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-45328-6

Plant-based alternatives (PBAs) are increasingly becoming part of diets. Here, we investigate the environmental, nutritional, and economic implications of replacing animal-source foods (ASFs) with PBAs or whole foods (WFs) in the Swedish diet. Utilising two functional units (mass and energy), we model vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian scenarios, each based on PBAs or WFs. Our results demonstrate that PBA-rich diets substantia...

Emmy Wassénius, Anne Charlotte Bunge, Mary K. Scheuermann, Kajsa Resare Sahlin, Agnes Pranindita, Moa Ohlsson, Abigayil Blandon, Chandrakant Singh, Kristin Malmcrona Friberg, Patricia Villarrubia-Gómez. 2023. Creative destruction in academia: a time to reimagine practices in alignment with sustainability values. Sustainability Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11625-023-01357-6

Academia has experienced acceleration and expansion in parallel with the Great Acceleration, which has shaped the Anthropocene. Among other pressures, the expectation to be internationally mobile conflicts with many values held by sustainability scholars and results in disillusionment. The changes in the academic system can be seen through the framework of the adaptive cycle, which can help us understand historical parallels a...

A. Charlotte Bunge, Amanda Wood, Afton Halloran, Line J. Gordon. 2022. A systematic scoping review of the sustainability of vertical farming, plant-based alternatives, food delivery services and blockchain in food systems. Nature Food. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00622-8

Food system technologies (FSTs) are being developed to accelerate the transformation towards sustainable food systems. Here we conducted a systematic scoping review that accounts for multiple dimensions of sustainability to describe the extent, range and nature of peer-reviewed literature that assesses the sustainability performance of four FSTs: plant-based alternatives, vertical farming, food deliveries and blockchain techno...

Kwong, E., Whiting, S., Bunge, A., Leven, Y., Breda, J., Rakovac, I., Cappuccio, F., Wickramasinghe, K.. 2022. Population level salt intake in the WHO European Region in 2022: a systematic review. Public Health Nutrition. doi.org/10.1017/s136898002200218x

Objective: The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that adults consume less than 5 grams of salt per day to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. This study aims to examine the average population daily salt intake in the 53 Member States of the WHO European Region. Design: A systematic review was conducted to examine the most up-to-date salt intake data for adults published between 2000 and 2022. ...

Karle-Bhat, S.J., Bunge, A.C. & Dally, E.R. 2021. Insights into a planetary health journey in Germany. Creative Nursing 27(4), 285–289.

Bunge, A.C., Wickramasinghe, K., Renzella, J., Clark, M., Rayner, M., Rippin, H., Halloran, A., Roberts, N. & Breda, J. 2021. Sustainable food profiling models to inform the development of food labels that account for nutrition and the environment: a systematic review. Lancet Planetary Health 5(11), E818–E826.

Sustainable food profiling models (SFPMs) are the scientific basis for the labelling of food products according to their environmental and nutritional impact, allowing consumers to make informed choices. We identified ten SFPMs that score individual foods according to at least two environmental indicators, with the most common being greenhouse gas emissions (n=10) and water use (n=8). Six models additionally assessed the nutri...