This book takes a transdisciplinary approach and considers multisectoral actions, integrating health, agriculture and environmental issues to comprehensively explore the topic of sustainable diets. The team of international authors informs readers with arguments, challenges, perspectives, policies, actions and solutions on global topics that must be properly understood in order to be effectively addressed. They position issues of sustainable diets as central to the Earth's future. Presenting the latest findings, they:

- Explore the transition to sustainable diets within the context of sustainable food systems, addressing the right to food, and linking food security and nutrition to sustainability;

- Convey the urgency of coordinated action, and consider how to engage multiple sectors in dialogue and joint research to tackle the pressing problems that have taken us to the edge, and beyond, of the planet's limits to growth;

- Review tools, methods and indicators for assessing sustainable diets;

- Describe lessons learned from case studies on both traditional food systems and current dietary challenges.

As an affiliated project of the 10YFP Sustainable Food Systems Program, this book provides a way forward for achieving global and local targets, including the Sustainable Development Goals and the United Nations Decade of Action on Nutrition commitments. This resource is essential reading for scientists, practitioners and students in the fields of nutrition science, food science, environmental science, agricultural science, development studies, food studies, public health and food policy.

Sustainable diets : a bundle of problems (not one) in search of answers / Tim Lang and Pamela Mason -- Sustainable diets : the public health perspective / Mark Lawrence, Phillip Baker, Kate Wingrove and Rebecca Lindberg -- The challenges of sustainable food systems, where food security meets sustainability,what are countries doing? / Meredith Harper, Alon Shepon, Nir Ohad and Elliot M. Berry -- Climate change, and sustainable and healthy diets / Cristina Tirado -- Biodiversity loss : we need to move from uniformity to diversity / Emile Frison and Nick Jacobs -- Agroecology and nutrition : transformative possibilities and challenges / Caterina Batello, Rachel Bezner Kerr, Ibukun Owoputi, Maryam Rahmanian and Ruth Charrondiere -- Indigenous food systems : contributions to sustainable food systems and sustainable diets / Harriet Kuhnlein, Paul Eme and Yon Fernandez-Larrinoa -- Can cities - from the global south - be the drivers of sustainable food systems? / Jorge Fonseca, Jane Battersby and Luis Antonio T. Hualda -- Consumer level food waste prevention and reduction towards sustainable diets / Silvia Gaiani, Rosa Rolle and Camelia Bucatariu -- Attaining a healthy and sustainable diet / Jessica Fanzo and Haley Swartz -- Highlighting interlinkages between sustainable diets and sustainable food systems / Alexandre Meybeck and Vincent Gitz -- Understanding the food environment : the role of practice theory and policy implications / Dalia Mattioni, Francesca Galli and Gianluca Brunori -- Sustainable diets : social and cultural perspectives / Xavier Medina and Alicia Aguilar -- Nutritional indicators to assess the sustainability of the Mediterranean diet / Lorenzo Donini, Sandro Dernini, Denis Lairon, Lluis Serra-Majem and Marie-Josèphe Amiot -- Assessing the environmental impact of diets / Corné Van Doreen -- Sustainable diets and food-based dietary guidelines / Rebekah Jones, Christopher Vogliano and Barbara Burlingame -- Costs and benefits of sustainable diets : impacts for the environment, society and public health nutrition / Adam Drewnowski -- The 10YFP sustainable food systems (SFS) programme as a multi-stakeholder platform for a systemic approach / Michael Mulet Solon, Patrick Mink, Sandro Dernini, Marina Bortoletti and James Lomax -- The Med diet 4.0 framework : a multidimensional driver for revitalizing the Mediterranean diet as a sustainable diet model / Sandro Dernini, Denis Lairon, Elliot Berry, Gianluca Brunori and Roberto Capone -- Traditional foods at the epicentre of sustainable food system / Antonia Trichopoulou -- Globally important agricultural heritage systems (GIAHS) : a legacy for food and nutrition security / Parviz Koohafkan -- Sustainability along all value chains : exploring value chain interactions in sustainable food systems / Allison Loconto, Florence Tartanac, Pilar Santacoloma, Roberto Azofeifa and Emilie Vandecandelaere -- Sustainable and healthy gastronomy: betting on sustainable diets / Marcela Dumani Echandi, Patricia Sedó Masís, Randall García Víquez and Roberto Azofeifa Rodríguez -- How organic food systems support sustainability of diets / Bernhard Johannes Kahl, Carola Strassner, Susanne Bügel, Flavio Paoletti and Denis Lairon -- Institutional food procurement for promoting sustainable diets / Florence Tartanac, Luana F.J. Swensson, Andrea Polo Galante and Danny Hunter -- Renewing partnerships with non-state actors for sustainable diets / Kakoli Ghosh -- Decalogue of gran canaria for sustainable food and nutrition in the community / Lluís Serra-Majem, Javier Aranceta Bartrina, Adriana Ortiz-Andrellucchi, Cristina Ruano-Rodriguez and Esther González-Padilla -- Ten years to achieve transformational change: the United Nations decade of action on nutrition 2016-2025 / Stineke Oenema -- Towards a code of conduct for sustainable diets / Barbara Burlingame.