Food Provision, Food Choice and Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

There are many contemporary challenges with the sustainable production, provision, and consumption of food on a global scale. The advent of COVID-19 has also created new challenges and opportunities in relation to providing a safe and sustainable food supply. This Special Issue covers all aspects of contemporary food provision across the food system, from the individual through to population level, in a variety of settings.  This includes food production, availability, and the individual selection of foods, eating behaviors and the impact on dietary quality and health, through to the broader impact of larger scale catering, food procurement, food safety, and wastage.

We invite submissions that feature stakeholder perspective or influence on sustainable food provision or food choice (for example: consumers, retailers, the food industry and caterers), the role of sustainable practices and policy on food provision and food choice, the influence of food and beverage industry and use of new technologies that promote and ensure safe and sustainable food provision. Studies will be considered for inclusion if they cover these topic areas, and are original research studies using quantitative or qualitative methods, or systematic or scoping review articles. All papers should follow standard reporting guidelines appropriate to the methodology (Authors can access reporting guidelines via the equator network https://www.equator-network.org/)

Prof. Fiona Pelly
Dr. Sarah Burkhart
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.