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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Barbour, Liza R.
• Woods, Julie L.
• Brimblecombe, Julie K.

Titel

Translating evidence into policy action: which diet‐related practices are essential to achieve healthy and sustainable food system transformation?

Ist Teil von

• Australian and New Zealand journal of public health, 2021-02, Vol.45 (1), p.83-84

Ort / Verlag

Australia: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Policy-makers have a critical role to play in transforming our food system to enable a sustainable future for our growing global population.1,2 Food production and consumption practices must shift to feed nearly 10 billion people by 2050 while respecting planetary boundaries and promoting human health.2 This requires a whole-of-system approach, including evidence-based policy to shift diet-related practice at the population level. This research aims to translate existing literature into practical terms for policy-makers by presenting a set of specific healthy and environmentally sustainable diet-related practices (Figure 1). Currently, our food system is depleting natural resources, contributing greenhouse gas emissions and driving biodiversity loss.3 The United Nations’ (UN) Decade of Action on Nutrition commits UN Member States, including Australia and New Zealand, to implement public health policy to create sustainable, resilient food systems for healthy diets.4 In 2012, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defined healthy and sustainable diets (HSD) as those with “low environmental impacts which contribute to food and nutrition security and to healthy life for present and future generations”.5(p7) The facilitation of HSD has been an emerging area of research. In 2013, broad principles of HSD were identified – avoiding overconsumption, reducing discretionary food intake and eating less animal and more plant-derived foods – and the feasibility of their uptake in the Australian context was explored