Reports – Sustainability

Diploma in Sustainable Food: For A Planet In Crisis (Chile, online in Spanish)

The Diploma in Sustainable Food: For a Planet in Crisis is an e-learning course offered in Spanish by the University of Chile, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Nutrition.

Sustainable nutrition and food arise as a response to the planetary crisis as a result of climate change that threatens the nutritional food security of the population. Addressing this requires an intersectoral and transdisciplinary approach that encompasses food systems, human nutrition, and planetary health.

The global interest in sustainable nutrition and food is inserted in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development through its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has defined sustainable diets as those that have a low environmental impact and contribute to food and nutritional security and a healthy life for present and future generations.

The Department of Nutrition (DNUT) is ideal for issuing this diploma, since the academic team has experience from different axes that are interrelated to seek answers to a complex problem.

The course targets graduates or professionals from careers related to health disciplines, nutrition, food, innovation, agronomy, environment, and others, who want to acquire knowledge and tools that complement their disciplinary area, in the context of nutrition and sustainable food.

Module 1: The current global food and health crisis.
Module 2: Food systems and their impact on nutritional food security.
Module 3: Food and the food industry: Impact on health and sustainability.
Module 4: Sustainable food for adequate nutrition in health and disease.
Module 5: Sustainable food systems applied to public health.

Register here: https://medichi.uchile.cl/diploma-alimentacion-sostenible/

Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Sustainable Nutrition (Bern, Germany)

**Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) Sustainable Nutrition**

The Certificate of Advanced Studies (CAS) in Sustainable Nutrition is offered at Bern University of Applied Sciences, in person, in German, at the Bern Campus. The course is generally held over seven months in two-day blocks on Fridays/Saturdays. It provides 12 ECTS credits, with a workload of 360 hours (incl. study days). There is a fee.

The CAS Sustainable Nutrition looks at global perspectives and Swiss contexts, and enables you to derive concrete nutritional recommendations for a healthy and sustainable diet in Switzerland. For this purpose, exemplary challenges are deepened, and solutions are discussed that you can network with your traditional professional field or carry into new occupational fields. A sustainable food system should give the entire world population access to safe and needs-based nutrition with fairly produced food produced taking into account planetary boundaries. This requires nutritionists who help shape the transformation of the nutrition system.

The target audiences for this course are nutritionists, food scientists, and other actors in the Swiss food system with a tertiary degree and a nutrition background.

Immerse yourself in the complexity of sustainable nutrition and become a mediator in the transformation of the nutrition system. In the CAS degree program you will:

explore the complexity of the different dimensions of sustainable nutrition.
discuss the Planetary Health Diet of the EAT Lancet Commission and other references as well as guidelines and recommendations and transfer global concepts to local conditions.
deal with the production and consumption of selected foods of animal origin such as meat and fish, the nose-to-tail approach and cultured meat.
design measures to reduce food loss or waste.
you will get to know the perspective of different actors in the nutrition system.
connect different aspects of a sustainable nutrition system with your own professional field and design a vision of your own role in it.
work on a self-selected topic to promote a sustainable food system.

updated 2026 February

Class Central MOOCS

Browse Class Central for more in depth distance courses offered as MOOCS (massive open online courses) from various universities around the world. This is a database of free online courses run by a small company with a mission to make education accessible.

The listing contains 250+ courses relating to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), several of which are of direct relevance to health and sustainability. Details vary by course but most run for 4-8 weeks and have instructors who provide feedback. Some are not accessible from all geographic regions, and while auditing is generally free, payment is required to receive an official certification.

We suggest the following as good places to start.

**Food Security & Sustainability**
(Course fees)

**Sustainability of Socio-Ecological Systems: The Nexus Between Water, Energy, and Food**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Systems Thinking in Public Health**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Sustainable Food Systems: A Mediterranean Perspective**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Future Food: Sustainable Food Systems for the 21st Century**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Food & Our Future: Sustainable Food Systems in South East Asia**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

**Climate Adaptation in Africa**
(Free – Course fees for certificate)

updated 2026 February

British Nutrition Foundation (website)

The British Nutrition Foundation is a public-facing charity that exists to promote health and wellbeing and prevent diet-related ill health through evidence-based nutrition science. They provide a bridge between nutrition science, government, industry, education, and people, and a conduit to a healthier, more sustainable food environment for all.

Their team of nutrition scientists and education professionals is dedicated to making trusted, evidence-based nutrition science accessible to everyone. They empower people with the knowledge, skills, and confidence to make healthier food, diet, and lifestyle choices with the aim of having a future where everyone has a healthy and sustainable diet.

Food, a fact of Life is a page dedicated to teaching young people aged 3-16 years about where food comes from, cooking, and healthy eating.

They also host many webinars on a wide variety of topics to watch live or on demand.

updated 2026 February

Agriculture, Nutrition & Health (ANH) Academy Science-Policy Platform (website)

The Agriculture, Nutrition, and Health Academy Science-Policy Platform brings together researchers, practitioners and policymakers working for better nutrition and health through improved agriculture and food systems.

With over 13,000 members in 160+ countries, the ANH Academy is a global network and platform for sharing research and evidence, capacity strengthening and collaboration across diverse disciplines. The ANH Academy also shares methods and metrics developed through Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions (IMMANA) grants and fellowships.

The aims and objectives of the ANH Academy Science-Policy Platform will be realised by coalescing activities around the central focus of demand-driven generation and uptake of evidence into policy processes. The successful components of the existing IMMANA Phase 2 programme are foundational to this new focus, including:

Competitive Research Grants,
expert-led thematic working groups,
ANH Academy Science-Policy Platform convened events,
leading and supporting original research endeavours,
prioritising actions via evidence syntheses and stakeholder consultations, and
promoting scientific capabilities through Fellowships, the ANH Support Centre for Agriculture and Nutrition Research (SCANR) and its associated mechanisms for capacity sharing and curriculum enrichment.

Entering its third phase in 2025, the ANH Academy is building on its growing interdisciplinary community, directing its efforts towards informing and supporting evidence-based policy change, through expanded partnerships in Africa and South Asia.

As part of this process, it will establish regional collaborative partnerships—Regional Collaboratives—which will drive the use of evidence and knowledge in policy decision making in Africa and South Asia. The institutions involved in these partnerships will be formally integrated into the ANH Academy, co-managing and co-delivering with existing partners.

updated 2026 February

United Nations’ Food Systems Coordination Hub (website)

The United Nations’ Food Systems Coordination Hub is the catalyst inside the UN system in relation to #FoodSystems and the 2030 Agenda.

Their vision is to convene, stimulate, and support action for food systems transformations aimed at accelerating progress towards the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Their mission is to serve countries through systemic, country-driven, customized support in translating their commitments into effective actions to reach sustainable food systems by 2030, leveraging the wider UN system’s capacities.

The hub offers several webinars and workshops advertised on their website and social media, and are archived in their Facebook Videos and/or YouTube channel. For upcoming events, visit this page.

International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste

Zero Waste is achievable: Nature never wastes. All byproducts feed something else. Waste is only waste if we waste. Thoughtful innovation, design, and behaviours are key to our success.

Wasted food is harming our earth, and people
The following is dapted from the FAO International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste, which is observed on September 29 every year:
• 31% of our food is wasted.
• 14% of the world’s food is lost after harvest, up to, but not including, the retail stage of the supply chain.
• 17% is wasted in retail and at the consumption level.
• This food loss and waste account for 8 -10 per cent of the total global greenhouse gases, contributing to an unstable climate and extreme weather events such as droughts and flooding. These changes negatively impact crop yields, reduce the nutritional quality of crops, cause supply chain disruptions, and threaten food security and nutrition.

Dietitians-Nutritionists are influential and valuable!
While not solely responsible for environmental sustainability initiatives, Dietitians-Nutritionists have a strong influence over food services, and food in the institutions is a strong driver of environmental impacts. Dietitians-Nutritionists should be at the table, collaborating with relevant colleagues to support this effort.

Practical Tips for Using Food Wisely:
• First in, First out – store & use food correctly from the pantry, freezer, and fridge
• Plan your meals, involve the whole family, and make a shopping list together
• Be creative with any leftovers – eat them as part of the next meal or snack, or transform them into something new.
• Share your solutions and discuss your struggles with relevant groups you are part of (schools, religions, community, etc.)

Food offer in public settings – A recipe for Sustainable Food Procurement

Citation: Garcia Herrero, L., Perez Cornago, A., Casonato, C., Sarasa-Renedo, A., Bakogianni, I., & et al. (2025). Food offer in public settings – A recipe for sustainable food procurement. Publications Office of the European Union. https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/2906424

The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission put together “Food offer in public settings – A recipe for Sustainable Food Procurement” as a list of criteria, best practices, and other tools that can be incorporated into tenders by contracting authorities and implemented by procurers throughout Europe.

The goal is to help schools, hospitals, and other public institutions and settings, such as canteens, serve food that nourishes people and the planet, and ultimately contribute to a sustainable food system.

updated 2026 February

MyNutriWeb (website)

Nutrition professionals hold a trusted role as agents of change, ideally positioned to drive progress toward diets that nourish both health and the environment.

MyNutriWeb is a Continuing Professional Development (CPD)-accredited online hub, primarily serving UK and Republic of Ireland health professionals, yet globally accessible. They aim to empower dietitians and nutritionists with credible, practical education to embed healthy, sustainable, and equitable nutrition into clinical practice and public health.

MyNutriWeb offers both free and low-cost options for select sessions (including student discounts), such as live/on-demand events, courses, blogs, research reviews, toolkits, and networking opportunities.

These span a broad curriculum from life-stage specific dietary needs to cutting-edge evidence on sustainability initiatives that enhance everyday practice and planetary health, often tailored to UK contexts like National Health Service (NHS) settings, with some multicultural resources.

Sustainable Diets: Fundamentals for Human and Planetary Health is one of MyNutriWeb’s short courses that addresses healthy food and nutrition for all while averting dangerous climate change and restoring the balance of the natural world. It can be previewed for free; there is a charge for the full course. The course brings together leading experts across every aspect of sustainable diets, integrating planetary and nutrition science, together with behaviour change tactics and specific considerations such as low-income groups, athletes, children, and the older population. This course can help professionals develop the confidence and knowledge necessary to incorporate sustainability into their practice.

updated 2026 February

Sustainable Food Systems for Planetary Health (Slides)

Would you like to do a presentation on Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) but don’t know where to start?

SFS Toolkit Advisory Team member 🇮🇪 Sarah Browne, RD, PhD, conducted this session with dietetics students at a university in the USA that might be useful for you.

Feel free to download it and use or adapt it for your own situation.