👋 Welcome to the #ICDAsfsToolkit!
This is the International Confederation of Dietetic Associations’ (ICDA) web-based toolkit that supports nutrition and dietetic professionals to integrate sustainability into practice.
🌍 Nutrition and Dietetics & Sustainable Food Systems (SFS)
Nutrition and dietetics professionals around the world work with food at various stages of food systems—from production to product development to procurement through to consumption. In these roles, you have a unique opportunity to influence these systems to be more sustainable, as well as nutritious. While scholars of many disciplines grapple with what must be done to create sustainable food systems (SFS), you can take these understandings of the what and apply it to the how … and be a part of making it happen!
🖥️ Connect with “Nutritionists for Sustainability” on social media
These communication groups were started by Dietitians-Nutritionists at ICND2024 in Toronto. They aim to improve peer-to-peer advice and support and to increase access to a range of practical, evidence-based, and context-specific tools and resources to support all Dietitians-Nutritionists to contribute positively to sustainability.
➤ Request to join the WhatsApp group at: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FUADEEbSgHQCusHcVKf4nK
➤ Request the LinkedIn group at: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13059833/
👇 Continue reading to learn what is in the toolkit and how to use it – or you may prefer a 5-minute video tour.
(this link takes you to a larger Zoom Clip)
Recent Updates:
- Sustainable Food Systems for Planetary Health: An Introduction (2024) 03 Feb 2025
- The Nyéléni Global Forum (2025) 03 Feb 2025
- Food + Planet (Website) 03 Feb 2025
- Hot Topic Resource Cluster: Blue Foods (2025 Jan) 03 Feb 2025
- 🌍 Global Networking Event on Sustainable Food Systems in Nutrition & Dietetics Education (2023 Jun 7-8) 01 Feb 2025
- 🇨🇦 Effective Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) Work: Key Messages for National Dietetic Associations. Outcome of ICDA SFS session at the International Congress of Nutrition and Dietetics (ICND 2024 Jun 12-14) 01 Feb 2025
- Hot Topic Resource Cluster: D-Ns role in Food Waste (2025 Jan) 01 Feb 2025
- Upcycled Food Association (UFA)(Website) 31 Jan 2025
- Food Thinkers events (City, University of London) 31 Jan 2025
- EAT-Lancet Report: Healthy Diets from Sustainable Food Systems (2019, 2024) 13 Jan 2025
- Sustainable healthy diets: guiding principles (2019) 06 Jan 2025
- Untapped opportunities: Climate financing for food systems transformation (2022) 06 Jan 2025
- Options for reforming agricultural subsidies from health, climate, and economic perspectives (2022) 06 Jan 2025
- Global Roots (website) 06 Jan 2025
- Good Practices in School Gardens and School Meals: Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean (2024) 06 Jan 2025
- Planet-friendly school meals: opportunities to improve children’s health and leverage change in food systems (2024) 06 Jan 2025
- School Meals Coalition. (2021 website) 06 Jan 2025
- Open Food Network (website) 06 Jan 2025
- Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN)(website) 06 Jan 2025
- Justice on the Menu: Legal & Policy Strategies to Address Structural Discrimination in the US Food System (2024 Oct) 04 Jan 2025
🧐 What’s in this Toolkit?
This toolkit is a collection of existing resources, case studies, infographics, learning modules, inspirational stories, and more to help support sustainability in dietetics. We have taken existing content and curated a collection to support your learning needs. In some cases, we have designed pieces just for you.
The toolkit is intended to help you understand SFS, identify your knowledge gaps, deepen your knowledge in particular areas, understand the relevance to nutrition and dietetics, and access tools for putting this knowledge into practice.
- Home – this page provides recent updates to the toolkit and information:
- About the Project’s vision, objectives, and guiding principles;
- About our Team; and
- About SFS in brief, as an introduction.
- Learning Modules
- Here you will find more formal, structured learning opportunities. We have also designed a sustainability self-assessment that allows you to discover what, specifically, you would like to learn about nutrition and sustainability.
- Resources
- Documents and other materials, activities, tools, and case studies that help you to learn more about sustainable food theory, concepts, and applications. Search and download resources on topics you want to learn more about, and tools to support sustainability into your practice.
🤔 How to use this Toolkit
You can use this toolkit however you would like. However, we suggest one of two ways:
1 – Structured Flow
- Learning Modules:
- Take the Sustainability Self-Assessment which will recommend a learning module and resources.
- Work through the Learning Module suggested.
- Resources:
- Explore the resources that are most relevant to you.
- Keep up-to-date and deepen your learning through podcasts, webinars, and workshops.

Take the sustainability self-assessment to get your personalized toolkit guide for your journey to sustainable nutrition!
2 – Free Flow
- Browse resources by relevance to your practice or challenges. Use the filters.
- Refer to the glossary as needed.
- If you are interested in learning more, check out the Learning Modules section.
This Toolkit is made to be used & shared - feel free!
Please cite the authors of the resources (and the ICDA SFS Toolkit if you can).
Feedback? Questions? Ideas? Contact the ICDA SFS Coordinator:
ICDAsfs.coordinator@acadiau.ca