Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Diets

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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. 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