This handbook presents a must-read, comprehensive and state of the art overview of sustainable diets, an issue critical to the environment and the health and well-being of society.
Sustainable diets seek to minimise and mitigate the significant negative impact food production has on the environment. Simultaneously they aim to address worrying health trends in food consumption through the promotion of healthy diets that reduce premature disability, disease and death. Within the Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets, creative, compassionate, critical, and collaborative solutions are called for across nations, across disciplines and sectors. In order to address these wide-ranging issues the volume is split into sections dealing with environmental strategies, health and well-being, education and public engagement, social policies and food environments, transformations and food movements, economics and trade, design and measurement mechanisms and food sovereignty. Comprising of contributions from up and coming and established academics, the handbook provides a global, multi-disciplinary assessment of sustainable diets, drawing on case studies from regions across the world. The handbook concludes with a call to action, which provides readers with a comprehensive map of strategies that could dramatically increase sustainability and help to reverse global warming, diet related non-communicable diseases, and oppression and racism.
This decisive collection is essential reading for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with promoting sustainable diets and thus establishing a sustainable food system to ensure access to healthy and nutritious food for all.
Author(s): Kathleen Kevany, Paolo Prosperi
Series: Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
Publisher: Routledge/Earthscan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 769
City: London
Cover
Endorsement Page
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
About the Editors
List of Contributors
Acknowledgements
Part 1 Framing and vision
Chapter 1 Inspiring sustainable diets
Chapter 2 Dignity, justice, and the right to food
Chapter 3 Reframing the sustainable diets narrative: Shifting diets by confronting systemic racism in the U.S. food systems
Chapter 4 Where sustainable diets fit in global governance
Part 2 Environmental strategies
Chapter 5 Climate change, food security, and sustainable diets
Chapter 6 The significance of agrobiodiversity for sustainable diets
Chapter 7 Practising agroecology for sustainable diets and healthy communities
Chapter 8 Conserving insect biodiversity in agroecosystems is essential for sustainable diets
Chapter 9 Bread from bugs and the significance of employing insect foods in the human diet
Chapter 10 Realising the potential for aquatic foods to contribute to environmentally sustainable and healthy diets
Chapter 11 Life, death, and dinner among the molluscs: Human appetites and sustainable aquaculture
Chapter 12 Grass-fed lies: The mythology of sustainable meat
Chapter 13 Re-meatification: The potential of plant-based alternatives to animal foods in transitions towards more sustainable and humane diets
Part 3 Health and well-being
Chapter 14 Health, well-being, and burden of disease
Chapter 15 Global burden of zoonotic disease, pandemics, COVID-19, and sustainable diets
Chapter 16 Eating for health and the environment: Food systems analysis and the ecological determinants of health
Chapter 17 Breastfeeding: A foundational strategy to strengthen sustainability in infant nutrition and development
Chapter 18 Towards more comprehensive analyses of the nutrition transition among adolescents in the rural South: An empirical contribution
Part 4 Education and public engagement
Chapter 19 Beyond what not to eat: Supporting communities to know sustainable diets
Chapter 20 Food literacy, pedagogies, and dietary guidelines: Converging approaches for health and sustainability
Chapter 21 Food systems literacy and critique
Chapter 22 Collective action in undergraduate food systems education to enhance sustainable diets
Chapter 23 Prefigurative spaces of critical food literacy: The case for campus food growing spaces
Chapter 24 Food gardens for sustainable diets in the Anthropocene
Chapter 25 Broadening our definition of sustainable food: Shifting perception, policy, and practice to include nonhuman animals
Part 5 Social policies and food environments
Chapter 26 (Re)building sustainable City Region Food Systems after COVID-19: The role of local governments and food initiatives
Chapter 27 Reorienting food environments to support sustainable diets
Chapter 28 A framework for integrating sustainability in international food-based dietary guidelines
Chapter 29 Odisha Millet Mission: A transformative food system for mainstreaming sustainable diets
Chapter 30 Reframing sustainable diets as sustainable food consumption
Part 6 Transformations and food movements
Chapter 31 The inner dimensions of sustainable diets
Chapter 32 Inspiring a plant-based transformation within the foodservice industry
Chapter 33 Food movements to foster adoption of more planet-friendly foods and sustainable diets
Chapter 34 Do alternative food networks change diets?
Chapter 35 Sectors of society supporting sustainable diets: An examination of Slow Food as a pathway towards sustainable diets
Part 7 Economics and trade
Chapter 36 Living wage and living income for sustainable diets
Chapter 37 Financialisation and sustainable diets
Chapter 38 Hazards ahead? Potential pitfalls in the surge of plant-based alternatives to animal foods
Chapter 39 Tomorrow’s agri-food system: The connections between trade, food security, and nutrition for a sustainable diet
Chapter 40 Circular bioeconomy of agri-food value chains: Innovative, sustainable, and circular business models’ contributions to sustainable diets and food systems
Chapter 41 Rethinking and practising the 3Rs (reduce, reuse, recycle) for preventing food loss and waste to increase food security
Part 8 Design and measurement mechanisms
Chapter 42 Enabling and measuring the adoption of sustainable diets
Chapter 43 Measuring the sustainability of food systems: The rationale for Footprint Indicators
Chapter 44 The role of design in the transition to sustainable diets
Chapter 45 Technology, digitalisation, and AI for sustainability: An assessment of digitalisation for food system transitions
Part 9 Food sovereignty and case studies
Chapter 46 Sustainability dimensions of Indigenous Peoples’ food systems in a changing world
Chapter 47 Food security, sufficiency, and affordability in Sub-Saharan Africa: Development of local sustainable food systems
Chapter 48 Millets and kīrai: Two food categories emblematic of the ability and knowledge of Tamil women to ensure a healthy and sustainable diet
Chapter 49 Challenges and opportunities for sustainable diets in India: A systems strengthening perspective
Chapter 50 Cultivating sustainable diets in China: Challenges and opportunities
Chapter 51 Bio-cultural diversity in South America: Overcoming agro-extractivism linked to unhealthy diets
Chapter 52 Climate transformations: Evolving food security, migration, and alternative livelihood strategies in Panama
Chapter 53 A reflection on globalisation influencing resilience of the contemporary Kosraean food systems
Part 10 Calls to action
Chapter 54 Monitoring food environments and systems for sustainable diets in Africa: Lessons from Ghana, Kenya, Senegal, and South Africa
Chapter 55 Calls to action for sustainable diets
Index
