Sustainable Diets: Linking Nutrition and Food Systems

Barbara Burlingame, Sandro Dernini

CABI, Dec 10, 2018 - Health & Fitness - 304 pages

This book takes a transdisciplinary approach and considers multisectoral actions, integrating health, agriculture and environmental issues to comprehensively explore the topic of sustainable diets. The team of international authors informs readers with arguments, challenges, perspectives, policies, actions and solutions on global topics that must be properly understood in order to be effectively addressed. They position issues of sustainable diets as central to the Earth's future. Presenting the latest findings, they:

- Explore the transition to sustainable diets within the context of sustainable food systems, addressing the right to food, and linking food security and nutrition to sustainability;

- Convey the urgency of coordinated action, and consider how to engage multiple sectors in dialogue and joint research to tackle the pressing problems that have taken us to the edge, and beyond, of the planet's limits to growth;

- Review tools, methods and indicators for assessing sustainable diets;

- Describe lessons learned from case studies on both traditional food systems and current dietary challenges.

As an affiliated project of the 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems Program, this book provides a way forward for achieving global and local targets, including the Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition commitments. This resource is essential reading for scientists, practitioners and students in the fields of nutrition science, food science, environmental science, agricultural science, development studies, food studies, public health and food policy.

Contents

• a Bundle of Problems Not One in Search of Answers: 1
• the Public Health Perspective: 13
• 3 The Challenges of Sustainable Food Systems Where Food Security Meets Sustainability What are Countries Doing?: 22
• 4 Climate Change and Sustainable and Healthy Diets: 32
• We Need to Move from Uniformity to Diversity: 42
• Transformative Possibilities and Challenges: 53
• Contributions to Sustainable Food Systems and Sustainable Diets: 64
• 8 Can Cities from the Global South be the Drivers of Sustainable Food Systems?: 79
• 9 Consumerlevel Food Waste Prevention and Reduction Towards Sustainable Diets: 89
• 10 Attaining a Healthy and Sustainable Diet: 99
• 11 Highlighting Interlinkages Between Sustainable Diets and Sustainable Food Systems: 113
• the Role of Practice Theory and Policy Implications: 121
• Social and Cultural Perspectives: 131
• 14 Nutritional Indicators to Assess the Sustainability of the Mediterranean Diet: 137
• 15 Assessing the Environmental Impact of Diets: 146
• 16 Sustainable Diets and Foodbased Dietary Guidelines: 158
• Impacts for the Environment Society and Public Health Nutrition: 172
• 18 The One Planet Sustainable Food Systems SFS Programme as a Multistakeholder Platform for a Systemic Approach: 178
• a Multidimensional Driver for Revitalizing the Mediterranean Diet as a Sustainable Diet Model: 187
• 20 Traditional Foods at the Epicentre of Sustainable Food Systems: 199
• a Legacy for Food and Nutrition Security: 204
• Exploring Value Chain Interactions in Sustainable Food Systems: 215
• Betting on Sustainable Diets: 225
• 24 How Organic Food Systems Support Sustainability of Diets: 232
• 25 Institutional Food Procurement for Promoting Sustainable Diets: 240
• 26 Renewing Partnerships with Nonstate Actors for Sustainable Diets through Sustainable Agriculture: 248
• 27 Decalogue of Gran Canaria for Sustainable Food and Nutrition in the Community: 255
• the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition 20162025: 261
• 29 Towards a Code of Conduct for Sustainable Diets: 268
• Index: 277

About the author

Barbara Burlingame is at Massey University, New Zealand.

Sandro Dernini is with Forum on Mediterranean Food Cultures, Italy.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sustainable Diets: Linking Nutrition and Food Systems
• Editors: Barbara Burlingame, Sandro Dernini
• Publisher: CABI, 2018
• ISBN: 1786392844, 9781786392848
• Length: 304 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Diet & Nutrition / Diets; Medical / Nutrition; Medical / Public Health; Nature / Natural Resources; Technology & Engineering / Agriculture / General; Technology & Engineering / Environmental / General