Diets and nutrition: The potential of a food systems approach

Ruel, Marie T.; and Brouwer, Inge D. 2024. Diets and nutrition: The potential of a food systems approach. In Global food policy report 2024: Food systems for healthy diets and nutrition. Chapter 2, Pp. 18-24. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/141886

As priorities in nutrition research and practice have evolved over time, food systems have increasingly become the organizing principle for work on nutrition and diets, with “food systems for sustainable healthy diets” emerging as the latest paradigm in nutrition. This chapter summarizes how learning from decades of work on the linkages between agriculture and nutrition paved the way to adopting the new food systems for sustainable healthy diets framework, and reflects on the emerging challenges and opportunities that arise for the nutrition community as we navigate this new global agenda.