Sustainable Diet Combining Socio-Economic, Environmental, and Nutritional Objectives

Dear Colleagues,

In the context of global and environmental challenges, involving growth in world population and urbanization, climate change, biodiversity reduction, water depletion, ecosystem degradation, food loss and waste, etc., the transition towards more healthy and sustainable diets is necessary for global sustainable development.

This Special Issue welcomes original research and reviews of literature focusing on sustainable dietary patterns and, in particular, on the following topics:

• Models identifying sustainable diets involving multiple dimensions (e.g., nutrition/health, environmental impact, affordability, acceptability, equity, etc.);
• Factors driving the adoption of sustainable diets;
• Interventions by public and/or private bodies (e.g., information treatments, fiscal measures, education, labels, etc.) to promote sustainable diets;
• Targets for healthy diets from sustainable food systems intertwined with the UN Sustainable Development Goals;
• Comparing socioeconomic, environmental sustainability, and cultural interconnections of different dietary patterns;
• Assessing the environmental impact of diets through Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) approaches;
• Relationships between sustainable diets and public food procurement strategies;
• Shifts towards more sustainable dietary patterns, including reductions in food loss and waste, and implications for food production, retail and food service (including public or private canteens).

Papers selected for this Special Issue are subject to a rigorous peer review procedure with the aim of the rapid and wide dissemination of the research results, developments, and applications.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Davide Menozzi
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Francesca Scazzina
Prof. Dr. Michele Donati
Guest Editors

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