Sustainable food systems and nutrition in the 21st century: a report from the 22nd annual Harvard Nutrition Obesity Symposium
This narrative shapes how food is produced, harvested, processed, distributed, marketed, disposed of, and eaten. It influences research, investments, policy priorities, and practices across the food sector, from governments and research establishments to educational curricula, investors, and businesses.
Review of the sustainability of food systems and transition ...
The ability to compute over large amounts of data will change the way the food system is analysed and understood and will permit a transition to sustainable food systems.
Methodological approaches to assess food systems sustainability: A
Abstract While there is a consensus on the need to transition towards more sustainable food systems, moving from a conceptual approach to a more operational understanding of food systems remains a research front. The objective of this paper is to take stock of existing methods to assess the sustainability or resilience of food systems.
Sustainable Food Technology
Sustainable Food Technology seeks the answers to these big questions. While our companion journal, Food & Function, focuses on the purpose of food and its relation to health and nutrition, this new journal publishes high-quality sustainable research on food engineering and technologies.
Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
Aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this journal explores the intersection of food systems, science and practice of sustainability including its environmental, economic and social ju...
A systematic literature review of food sustainable supply chain
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the increased research attention gained by sustainability in food supply chain management. Although previous review studies have focused on aspects such as traceability, food safety, and performance measurement, sustainability has rarely been considered as a means of integrating these issues.
Sustainability and the Food Industry: A Bibliometric Analysis
The food industry has significantly expanded and become globalized due to the growth of the economies of many countries and an increasing world population. The industry is consequently facing major sustainability challenges. Food, which is critical to the existence of humanity and is affected by the world's ecosystems and human intervention, is a fundamental issue within academic research ...
A meta-analysis of projected global food demand and population ...
The results of our review can be used to benchmark new global food security projections and quantitative scenario studies and inform policy analysis and the public debate on the future of food.
Innovation can accelerate the transition towards a sustainable food
Here, we identify these technologies, assess their readiness and propose eight action points that could accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable food system.
Supporting Food Systems Transformation Towards Sustainability and
The time is now for food systems transformation. Humanity needs thriving food systems, but they are in crisis. Food systems are interconnected across various sectors and are linked to all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Consequently, they are crucial for achieving these goals, requiring multidimensional solutions to address them ...
Sustainable Food
Section Information. The purpose of the Sustainable Food initiative is to help guide food systems toward an equitable and sustainable future. Sustainable food systems/chains are protective and respectful of biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as human well-being and social equity. To be sustainable, food systems also need to aim at reducing ...
Research on agro-food sustainability transitions: where are food
The main outcome of sustainable agro-food systems is food and nutrition security. Nevertheless, about half of the global population is affected by food insecurity and malnutrition, a symptom of the dysfunctions of the current food system. This paper provides a review of the state of research on the sustainability of agro-food transitions, and the extent to which and in what ways such research ...
Exploration of Food Security Challenges towards More Sustainable Food
In particular, in the current COVID-19 pandemic era, it has more than ever become a mission-critical goal. In this research, we report on the food security drivers and the current state of recommended policies addressing chronic food insecurity aimed at ensuring the sustainability of future food production.
A View to the Future: Opportunities and Challenges for Food and
The challenges to achieving sustainability in food and nutrition are daunting. The present paper summarizes 3 individual papers that are part of this special collection. The lynchpin for synthesizing the papers is sustainability and food systems. Within ...
The Effects of Environmental Sustainability Labels on Selection
Abstract This review assessed the effects of environmental labels on consumers' demand for more sustainable food products. Six electronic databases were searched for experimental studies of ecolabels and food choices. We followed standard Cochrane methods and results were synthesized using vote counting.
Sustainable agrifood systems for a post-growth world
This redesign should be supported by coordinated education and research efforts that do not simply replicate dominant discourses on food system sustainability but point towards a post-growth world ...
Food Security and Transition towards Sustainability
In the light of linkages in various scales and targets, the complex and nuanced design of the sustainable development goals (SDG) raises more challenges in their implementation on the ground. This paper reviewed 25 food security indicators, proposed improvements to facilitate operationalization, and illustrated practical implementation. The research focused on three essential blind spots that ...
Sustainability in food service: A systematic review
Abstract The irrational functioning of the food sector can negatively impact the environment and resources for future generations. The aim of this study is to analyse the assessment of sustainability indicators related to meal production processes and waste in the food service through a systematic literature review.
Food Sustainability in the Context of Human Behavior
Regardless of definitions and beliefs, food sustainability is about generating food at a productivity level that is enough to maintain the human population. Sustainable food production is fundamentally grounded on the availability of fertile land, water, nutrients, and an adequate climate. In addition, the volume of food needed to feed humans ...
Food Sustainability: Challenges and Opportunities for the Future
A Sustainable Food System is central to the achievement of the SDGs, which serve as a guiding framework for present and future generations in pursuit of global sustainability. The SDGs are a set of 17 global goals established by the United Nations to address various social, economic, and environmental challenges by 2030.
Environmentally Sustainable Food Consumption: A Review and Research
Particularly in high-income countries, transforming food consumption is deemed an essential condition for reaching global sustainability goals ( UN, 2016 ). The current review therefore focuses on different behavioral strategies to promote environmentally sustainable food consumption in high-income countries.
Sustainable agriculture
Achieving food security is possible, if we better understand the complexity of the agricultural system and re-design practices accordingly.
A resilience-sustainability coupling coordination analysis of the
3.2 Establishing a system of indicators to evaluate the resilience and sustainability of China's food production systems 3.2.1 Construction of indicators for evaluating the resilience of China's grain production system. This paper starts from the definition of resilience referring to the above-mentioned scholars' research results on resilience, combines the factors affecting the ...
Research on food security issues considering changes in rainfall
The issue of food security is not only related to the livelihoods of countries but also to global development. In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...
COMMENTS
This narrative shapes how food is produced, harvested, processed, distributed, marketed, disposed of, and eaten. It influences research, investments, policy priorities, and practices across the food sector, from governments and research establishments to educational curricula, investors, and businesses.
The ability to compute over large amounts of data will change the way the food system is analysed and understood and will permit a transition to sustainable food systems.
Abstract While there is a consensus on the need to transition towards more sustainable food systems, moving from a conceptual approach to a more operational understanding of food systems remains a research front. The objective of this paper is to take stock of existing methods to assess the sustainability or resilience of food systems.
Sustainable Food Technology seeks the answers to these big questions. While our companion journal, Food & Function, focuses on the purpose of food and its relation to health and nutrition, this new journal publishes high-quality sustainable research on food engineering and technologies.
Aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, this journal explores the intersection of food systems, science and practice of sustainability including its environmental, economic and social ju...
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the increased research attention gained by sustainability in food supply chain management. Although previous review studies have focused on aspects such as traceability, food safety, and performance measurement, sustainability has rarely been considered as a means of integrating these issues.
The food industry has significantly expanded and become globalized due to the growth of the economies of many countries and an increasing world population. The industry is consequently facing major sustainability challenges. Food, which is critical to the existence of humanity and is affected by the world's ecosystems and human intervention, is a fundamental issue within academic research ...
The results of our review can be used to benchmark new global food security projections and quantitative scenario studies and inform policy analysis and the public debate on the future of food.
Here, we identify these technologies, assess their readiness and propose eight action points that could accelerate the transition towards a more sustainable food system.
The time is now for food systems transformation. Humanity needs thriving food systems, but they are in crisis. Food systems are interconnected across various sectors and are linked to all the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Consequently, they are crucial for achieving these goals, requiring multidimensional solutions to address them ...
Section Information. The purpose of the Sustainable Food initiative is to help guide food systems toward an equitable and sustainable future. Sustainable food systems/chains are protective and respectful of biodiversity and ecosystems, as well as human well-being and social equity. To be sustainable, food systems also need to aim at reducing ...
The main outcome of sustainable agro-food systems is food and nutrition security. Nevertheless, about half of the global population is affected by food insecurity and malnutrition, a symptom of the dysfunctions of the current food system. This paper provides a review of the state of research on the sustainability of agro-food transitions, and the extent to which and in what ways such research ...
In particular, in the current COVID-19 pandemic era, it has more than ever become a mission-critical goal. In this research, we report on the food security drivers and the current state of recommended policies addressing chronic food insecurity aimed at ensuring the sustainability of future food production.
The challenges to achieving sustainability in food and nutrition are daunting. The present paper summarizes 3 individual papers that are part of this special collection. The lynchpin for synthesizing the papers is sustainability and food systems. Within ...
Abstract This review assessed the effects of environmental labels on consumers' demand for more sustainable food products. Six electronic databases were searched for experimental studies of ecolabels and food choices. We followed standard Cochrane methods and results were synthesized using vote counting.
This redesign should be supported by coordinated education and research efforts that do not simply replicate dominant discourses on food system sustainability but point towards a post-growth world ...
In the light of linkages in various scales and targets, the complex and nuanced design of the sustainable development goals (SDG) raises more challenges in their implementation on the ground. This paper reviewed 25 food security indicators, proposed improvements to facilitate operationalization, and illustrated practical implementation. The research focused on three essential blind spots that ...
Abstract The irrational functioning of the food sector can negatively impact the environment and resources for future generations. The aim of this study is to analyse the assessment of sustainability indicators related to meal production processes and waste in the food service through a systematic literature review.
Regardless of definitions and beliefs, food sustainability is about generating food at a productivity level that is enough to maintain the human population. Sustainable food production is fundamentally grounded on the availability of fertile land, water, nutrients, and an adequate climate. In addition, the volume of food needed to feed humans ...
A Sustainable Food System is central to the achievement of the SDGs, which serve as a guiding framework for present and future generations in pursuit of global sustainability. The SDGs are a set of 17 global goals established by the United Nations to address various social, economic, and environmental challenges by 2030.
Particularly in high-income countries, transforming food consumption is deemed an essential condition for reaching global sustainability goals ( UN, 2016 ). The current review therefore focuses on different behavioral strategies to promote environmentally sustainable food consumption in high-income countries.
Achieving food security is possible, if we better understand the complexity of the agricultural system and re-design practices accordingly.
3.2 Establishing a system of indicators to evaluate the resilience and sustainability of China's food production systems 3.2.1 Construction of indicators for evaluating the resilience of China's grain production system. This paper starts from the definition of resilience referring to the above-mentioned scholars' research results on resilience, combines the factors affecting the ...
The issue of food security is not only related to the livelihoods of countries but also to global development. In 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable ...