Seven Strategies for Advancing Sustainable Dietary Patterns: Leverage Points for Nutrition and Dietetics Professionals (2025)

The Seven Strategies for Advancing Sustainable Dietary Patterns: Leverage Points for Nutrition and Dietetics Professionals synthesises the peer-reviewed evidence and grey literature to outline seven evidence-based leverage points for D-N practitioners, providing them with guidance to make food systems more sustainable.

This list is by no means comprehensive, but rather guided by practical application to nutrition and dietetics, they are:
1 – Fiscal Drivers,
2 – Front-of-Pack Food Labelling,
3 – Institutional Food Policies,
4 – Catering at Institutions,
5 – Retail-Level Marketing,
6 – Communication and Social Marketing, and
7 – Food Literacy.

Citation: Carlsson, L., Wegener, J., Everitt, T., Srinivasan, S., Engel, K. (2025). Seven Strategies for Advancing Sustainable Dietary Patterns: Leverage Points for Nutrition and Dietetics Professionals. Report. Acadia University, Toronto Metropolitan University, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.

This graphic summarises the actions and examples from the seven strategies.

updated Nov 2025

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