Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
How can huge populations be fed sustainably healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining ecosystems on which humanity depends? The evidence on diet s impact on public health and the environment has grown in recent decades, yet changing food supply, consumer habits and economic aspirations proves hard.
This book explores the case for sustainable diets in the Anthropocene, the current era in which human activities are driving the mismatch of humans and planet. Food production and consumption are key factors in this realignment yet policy makers hesitate to reshape public eating habits and tackle the unsustainability of the global food system.
The authors propose a multi-criteria approach to sustainable diets, giving equal weight to nutrition and public health, the environment, socio-cultural issues, food quality, economics and governance. This six-pronged approach to sustainable diets brings order and rationality to what either is seen as too complex to handle or is addressed simplistically and ineffectually. The book provides a major overview of this vibrant issue of interdisciplinary and public interest. It shows the reasons for concern and how actors throughout the food system (governments, producers, civil society and consumers) must engage with (un)sustainable diets.
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