Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Toolkit

Creating healthy communities and accelerating a shift towards SFS globally.

Welcome

This web-based toolkit supports Dietitians-Nutritionists (D-Ns) to integrate sustainability into practice. D-Ns around the world work with food and throughout food systems. In these roles, you have a unique opportunity to influence these systems to be more sustainable, as well as nutritious.

Our Vision:

This toolkit is guided by our vision that D-Ns bring a deep understanding of SFS into their practice and play key roles in creating healthy communities and accelerating a shift towards SFS.

Our Objectives:

To provide accessible, relevant, and transferable information on the interconnections of SFS and human health.

To provide practical, evidence-based tools for incorporating sustainability into nutrition and dietetic practice in a diversity of roles and cultural contexts.

To facilitate learning and collaboration to deepen understanding and support the incorporation of sustainability into nutrition and dietetic practice.

Our Guiding Principles

The ICDA SFS Toolkit is guided by the following principles:

Sustainability	using systems approaches that consider environmental, social, and economic impacts and strive for health, resilience, and continuity in all these systems
Transparency	reflecting on and striving to be explicit about our assumptions, perspectives, and social locations
Equity	reflective of a range of geographic, linguistic, cultural, social, and ecological contexts, as well as diverse ways of knowing (epistemological) and methodological approaches
Evidence-based	critical, ongoing evaluation of sources of knowledge and perspectives
Diversity	reflective of a range of geographic, linguistic, cultural, social, and ecological contexts as well as diverse ways of knowing (epistemological) and methodological approaches
Dynamism	responsive to changes in our understanding of nutrition and sustainability
Curiosity	the spirit of openness towards continual learning and growth

About the Team

The ICDA SFS Toolkit is for and by us. The content and format are guided by the vision and objectives and have been built on contributions from ICDA members (National Dietetics-Nutrition Associations [NDAs]), with leadership from our SFS Advisory Group members, researchers, and students from around the world who all volunteer their time.

ICDA Board of Directors

All of the work on sustainability has been supported with ICDA funding and the strategic decision-making of the ICDA Board of Directors.

Collaboration

The work has been guided by collaborative leadership from Liesel Carlsson and Stacia Nordin. There have been many people contributing actively to the work, who are acknowledged in our Sustainability, Food Systems, and Nutrition Learning Modules.