👋 Welcome to the #ICDAsfsToolkit!
This is the International Confederation of Dietetic Associations’ (ICDA) web-based toolkit that supports Dietitians-Nutritionists (D-Ns) to integrate sustainability into practice.
🌍 Nutrition and Dietetics & Sustainable Food Systems (SFS)
D-Ns 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 D-Ns 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 D-Ns to contribute positively to sustainability.
➤ Request to join the WhatsApp group, fill this Google Form: https://forms.gle/VWwTzgeCvAbpk5LT6
➤ 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)
Questions? Ideas? Feedback? Contact: ICDAsfs.coordinator@acadiau.ca
Recent Updates:
- Nyéléni 14 Jul 2025
- Contribution of the dietitian nutritionist to food sustainability: Guidelines for its incorporation in the formation (2025) 12 Jul 2025
- Chef Rodrigo Pacheco’s Biodiverse Edible Forest and Bocavaldivia (Ecuador) 08 Jul 2025
- NeverEndingFood Permaculture, Malawi (2025) 08 Jul 2025
- Agroecology Case Studies 08 Jul 2025
- Food + Planet SFS Case Studies 08 Jul 2025
- EAT (website) 08 Jul 2025
- SPP, Small Producers (2025) 04 Jun 2025
- Addressing Food Waste at University College Dublin, Ireland (2025) 04 Jun 2025
- Sustainable Collaboration: University College Dublin and Airfield Estate, Dublin, Ireland (2025) 04 Jun 2025
- National School Lunch Program in Japan (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- Dietary Guidelines for the Brazilian Population (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- SFS Education in Nutrition & Dietetics degrees: Global Case Studies (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- SecondBite, Austrailia (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- Community Kitchens: Responding to Crisis in South African Township: Community innovation for nutritious food in the time of COVID-19 (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- Reviving Traditional Grain Production and Consumption in India (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- Gardening & Nutrition Education in a Speech & Hearing Impaired School – Chennai India (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- Red-Listed Seafood (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- Reducing Food Waste with Recovering Drug Addicts in Germany (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- Food Sustainability and Nutrition in Violence Prevention in Jamaica (2025) 03 Jun 2025
- German Example on Integrating Sustainability in Dietetic Courses (2025) 03 Jun 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) 29 May 2025
- Food as Medicine Global (website) 02 May 2025
- Greenhouse gas emissions in relation to micronutrient intake and implications of energy intake: a comparative analysis of different modeling approaches (2025) 02 May 2025
- The Coolfood (website) 02 May 2025
- Nourish Leadership in Health Care (website) 02 May 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.
The ICDA SFS Toolkit is made to be used & shared freely.
Please cite the authors of the resources you use, and the ICDA SFS Toolkit if you are able:
InternationalDietetics.org/Sustainability