Sustainable Food Systems, Nutrition, and Health
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Health, Well-Being and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 26070
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutrient profiling; diet quality; diet cost; environmental impact; social context; low- and middle-income countries; nutrition transition; population health
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The concept of Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems would benefit from an in-depth examination of the four domains that underlie both healthy diets and sustainable food systems. Sustainable diets need to be nutrient-rich, affordable, socially acceptable, and with a low impact on the environment. Sustainable food systems need to be economically viable, provide value to society, and make optimum use of both human and natural resources, including land, water, and energy.
The four domains can be conceptualized as nutrition and health, economics, society, and the environment. Much of the existing literature on sustainable diets has emphasized the links between food production, human diets, and their impact on personal and population health and environmental impact, especially climate. At this time, most sustainability-related dietary guidelines still rely narrowly on evidence from the health and environmental domains. By comparison, social and economic components of healthy diets and sustainable food systems, for example, overall health and wellbeing, food access, cultural identity, gender equality, and sustainable economic development, continue to be overlooked.
An in-depth examination of the socioeconomic components of diets and food systems, including topics relevant to both high-income and low- and middle-income countries, would complement the existing literature and improve understanding of how to define sustainability. Systems-based approaches that consider the trade-offs and synergies among the four domains—applied in multiple contexts and across geographic locations—will advance this transdisciplinary field. This Special Issue includes papers by authors who are bridging gaps across the domains in new ways.
References:
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Drewnowski A, Finley J, Hess JM, Ingram J, Miller G, Peters C. Toward Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems. Curr Dev Nutr. 2020;4(6):nzaa083. Published 2020 May 20. doi:10.1093/cdn/nzaa083
Fanzo J, Drewnowski A, Blumberg J, Miller G, Kraemer K, Kennedy E. Nutrients, Foods, Diets, People: Promoting Healthy Eating. Curr Dev Nutr. 2020;4(6):nzaa069. Published 2020 Apr 1. doi:10.1093/cdn/nzaa069
Nelson ME, Hamm MW, Hu FB, Abrams SA, Griffin TS. Alignment of Healthy Dietary Patterns and Environmental Sustainability: A Systematic Review. Adv Nutr. 2016;7(6):1005-1025. Published 2016 Nov 15. doi:10.3945/an.116.012567
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Prof. Adam Drewnowski
Prof. Timothy Griffin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- health
- nutrition
- economics
- society
- environment
- sustainable food systems
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