The following tools are examples you can use in your practice to promote sustainability to the public and incorporate it in to your practice.
Building truly inclusive partnerships is key to transforming food systems. Effective collaboration needs clear strategies to create open and dynamic spaces where diverse voices can contribute.
The FOODPathS Toolkit provides a comprehensive toolkit with best practices, useful tools, and resources to help you design and strengthen inclusive partnerships.
You will find 3 categories of tools:
– Concept Tools –
Define your roadmap
– Mapping Tools –
Identify key stakeholders & case studies
– Engagement Tools –
Exchange, collaborate, & gather feedback
How can the environment systematically and operationally be integrated into on-the-ground nutrition programmes? As a start to achieving that outcome, GAIN has developed a simple, user-friendly Environment Screening Tool to be used by all project teams across the organisation. This paper discusses the tool, initial results, and ways forward. This is a work in progress, and this working paper aims to document the evolution and learning.
You can use the GAIN tool online. The tool is on page 5 in the paper, or use this link.
Note that once you are in the tool, the menu is for staff only, but most of that information is in the paper. There are contacts for staff who are very helpful when needed.
The Planetary Health Report Card (PHRC) was adapted for nutrition and dietetics in 2024 by a student-faculty team at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. The tips in the PDF document were created by them to guide you through the process of assessing your school and curriculum. It is hoped that the PHRC will serve as a valuable tool to advocate for planetary health to be prioritised by nutrition and dietetics schools globally, in education, and all other domains of action. Let us know if you take part so we can share it further!
Visit the PlanEATary Quest and Toolkit to take your own quest in 4 easy steps:
Step 1: Complete the quiz;
Step 2: Design your Challenge;
Step 3: Complete your Challenge;
Step 4: Repeat the Quiz.
🇦🇺 Australia created the PlanEATary Quest to promote planetary health, one bite at a time. The Quest encourages dietitians to choose their own adventure to modify their own diet-related practices in line with current evidence regarding planetary health outcomes.
To read more about how it was produced, visit the SFS Toolkit Grants page.
This activity is an introductory level suite of discussion-based activities to get community members, fellow professionals, or clients thinking about how their own food traditions and cultural wisdom align with sustainability.
To reduce food waste by planning flexible meals that use up things that would otherwise be composted.To communicate your menu choices and sustainability benefits to clients
Great Meals for a Change was created as part of a research project which examined the effectiveness of people hosting a meal with friends and using educational activities with a toolkit to guide and support a conversation about sustainable food and food systems (Warner, Callaghan & de Vreede, 2014). A party-style “sustainable meal” can be an effective way to shift norms and disseminate knowledge about sustainable food.
This activity is meant for those in food service and administration roles who are interested in menu and policy change. It is relevant to North America, Europe, Australasia and anywhere else with similar institutional food service models. The tool has a series of brainstorming and planning exercises based on practical experience and research on facilitating shifts towards more healthy and sustainable institutional food conducted at Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Canada.
To teach students about sustainability through local and seasonal foods and provide an easy and sustainable recipe. It’s easier to talk about sustainability over food!
Questions? Ideas? Feedback? Contact: ICDAsfs.coordinator@acadiau.ca
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