These visuals can aid Dietitian-Nutritionists (D-Ns) in communicating Sustainable Food Systems (SFS) to their target audience. Posters or handouts on your walls, desk, or tables in your office or waiting area can strike up a conversation about the connection between a healthy earth for the healthiest foods, and supporting systems for healthy societies.
Posters can help guide people to select foods that avoid plastics, avoid food waste, support local economies & indigenous foods/landscapes, or learn about labels for selecting foods from The Fairtrade Foundation and sustainable certifiations such as the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) to assure people and planet are protected in the foods we choose.
Food offer in public settings – A recipe for Sustainable Food Procurement
The Joint Research Centre of the European Commission put together 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.
Citation: GARCIA HERRERO, L., PEREZ CORNAGO, A., CASONATO, C., SARASA-RENEDO, A., BAKOGIANNI, I. et al., Food offer in public settings – A recipe for Sustainable Food Procurement, Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg, 2025, https://data.europa.eu/doi/10.2760/2906424, JRC144182.
2025 November
Sustainability-informed dietetics education: key messages for educators and national dietetics associations
We have created 2 infographics for you based on our article in the British Dietetic Association’s Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics: Sustainability‐informed dietetics education: key messages for educators and national dietetics associations.
The infographics are a summary of key messages complete with links that will take you to the practical tools and examples. We hope you find the recommendations to educators and NDAs relevant and practical. They were generated and refined by 55 dietitians and nutritionists during a Global Networking Event on Sustainable Food Systems in Nutrition & Dietetics Education hosted by the University College of Dublin in collaboration with the #ICDAsfsToolkit.
The Hidden Link: Healthy Soil, Healthy Humans
From the article:
We directly relate our own health to the food we eat, yet we often overlook the soil from which that food springs. There’s an undeniable and profound connection between healthy soil and healthy human beings.
Explore this less understood link between healthy soil and healthy humans, with a key focus on the delicate food web that binds all lives. As we come to understand this relationship and as we work together to protect and improve soil health, we build the bridge to a more sustainable future—for ourselves and for generations to follow.
Let’s nurture our base—the soil—and ensure a living planet for all.
updated 2024 September
MyNutriWeb Resource Hub
The MyNutriWeb Resource Hub is home to a carefully curated and ever-expanding collection of informative session summaries, posters, and fact sheets.
Use the search feature to filter your view, including on Sustainable eating!
updated 2024 July
Sustainable Food Is . . .
This infographic can be used however you would like – a poster on a wall, printed as a handout, or shared electronically.
It is part of a practice tool called “Great Meals for a Change” which includes a “sustainable meal” that can be an effective way to shift norms through eating and discussing sustainable foods.
Source: Alan Warner, Edith Callaghan & Cate de Vreede (2013) Promoting sustainable food and food citizenship through an adult education leisure experience, Leisure/Loisir, 37:4, 337-360, DOI: 10.1080/14927713.2014.906176
updated 2024 May
The Edible Cities Network
The Edible Cities Network is an EU-funded project exploring how urban food innovations can make cities around the world greener, more inclusive and more environmentally resilient.
updated 2024 May
Food Fairness Illawarra (FFI)
Food Fairness Illawarra (FFI) is a community coalition that has worked together since 2005 to make healthy and sustainable food affordable and accessible for all.
FFI is guided by representatives from six key organisations: Healthy Cities Illawarra, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong City Council, Shellharbour City Council, Kiama Municipal Council and the University of Wollongong).
FFI has a wider network of over 1000 individuals, community groups, charities and non-government organisations, who recognise the need for collaboration between community, industry, and governments to unlock fairer food solutions.
updated 2024 May
Nourish’s SFS Teaching Tools (WorldLink 2022)
This Nourish Food System map is one of many examples from the Nourish food + community website for you to use. There is a handbook that goes with this as well.
Nourish is an educational initiative by WorldLink designed to open a meaningful conversation about food, health, and sustainability. To inform and inspire the largest number of people, Nourish combines PBS television, curriculum resources, web content, short films, and professional learning.
This infographic is also available in Hungarian thanks to the Hungarian Dietetics Association (HDA), a grant from the ICDA SFS toolkit, and a partnership HDA formed with WorldLink. If you are interested in the deails of thir project, visit the NDA Grants Page.
Note from SFS Toolkit Coordinator: We encourage you to consider waste and efficiency at every step of the system, not as 1 step, or ‘at the end’ as many diagrams often show.
updated 2025 May
ShiftN Food Systems Map (2009)
The ShiftN site doesn’t have the link to these food systems maps any longer, and the link is broken to the original source. The header link takes you to some high-quality versions from the USA’s National Agriculture in the Classroom page.
updated 2024 July
To explore business and government approaches that have increased local food procurement (2022)
From May to June 2022, Leah Galvin attended meetings and conducted site visits in the USA, Canada, England, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland. Duringarching models and approaches that promote the procurement of local, healthy, an her visits, she focused on resed sustainable food by public institutions. This infographic provides a high-level summary of the Churchill Fellowship trip. Additional detail is provided in the summary report, case studies, video, and bibliography.
Governments have few sources of leverage over increasingly globalized food systems – but public procurement is one of them. When sourcing food for schools, hospitals and public administrations, Governments have a rare opportunity to support more nutritious diets and more sustainable food systems in one fell swoop,” – Olivier De Schutter United Nations Special Rapporteur On The Right To Food (2014)
updated 2024 July
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The UN SDGs “are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice. The 17 Goals are all interconnected, and in order to leave no one behind, it is important that we achieve them all by 2030.”
Follow the link to each SDG to find out more about the goal, and access professional quality infographics about each. These are useful in communicating and educating about sustainability in a variety of roles.
You can also use our SDG Briefs: Dietitian-Nutritionist Roles, which examine how each SDG Goal is relevant to the work of nutrition and dietetics professionals.
updated 2024 July
Statistica
Statistica offers a wide range of infographics on many global topics, including food, food industry, diets, environmental issues and human health. Easily searchable (e.g., search “sustainable food”). Some are free, others require an account. The site offers statistics, forecasts, reports and tools; you can select for only infographics if that is what you need. Information would be relevant to communicating and educating in a variety of contexts and roles.
updated 2024 July
Global Nutrition Report Infographics
The Global Nutrition Report includes downloadable country-level profiles, and clear graphic images, for progress toward global nutrition targets. As such, they capture snapshots of the state of mal/nutrition by country where data exists. These can be helpful to demonstrate how changes in food systems impact nutritional health in various ways, and this varies regionally. These infographics would be relevant to communication and education activities in a variety of roles and settings.
updated 2024 July
Canadian Nutrition Society
The Canadian Nutrition Society offers a wide range of free, downloadable infographics in both English and French that target key, evolving topics in nutrition. Some of these topics include COVID-19 and nutrition, gut health and the microbiome, nutrition and metabolic syndrome, and other important topics of nutrition. These infographics can be used in a wide variety of settings, roles and activities and are relevant at a communication and education level.
There isn’t a search feature on the infographics page, but through scrolling you can find topics related to sustainability, such as plant-based proteins.
updated 2024 July
Barilla Foundation & the Food Sustainability Index
The Barilla Foundation promotes responsible behavior and healthy food choices for concrete change in society. The Food Sustainability Index (FSI), developed by Economist Impact with the support of the Fondazione Barilla, examines how food systems are performing across three pillars: food loss and waste, sustainable agriculture, and nutritional challenges. Its 38 indicators and 95 sub-indicators address societal, environmental and economic themes in 78 countries. These infographics can be helpful to understand and share the differing impact that nutrition has in a variety of countries around the world and how these impacts compare with one another at an individual, local, and national level.
updated 2024 July
Meet Green
The Meet Green website contains a wide variety of infographics that cover topics of both environmental and social sustainability. Topics such as making events sustainable in times of COVID-19, minimizing the amount of water usage for menus at events, fair trade campaigns and more, are all depicted through colourful, evidence-based and comprehensive infographics. These infographics are free to download and can be shared via the website link.
Do a search for food or nutrition or plastics, etc. and you’ll find lots of options from which to choose.
updated 2024 July
How Dietitians and Nutritionists in the Caribbean Contribute to Sustainable Food Systems
This infographic is based on a study conducted by Katherine Bowes, dietetic intern and Acadia University Alumni, who identified the ways that Dietitians and Nutritionists in the Caribbean contribute to sustainable food systems, their barriers in doing so, and ways to overcome the identified barriers.
Katherine Bowes & Liesel Carlsson (2023): Incorporating Sustainable Food Systems into Practice: The Perceived Roles, Knowledge Needs, and Practice Barriers of Dietitians and Nutritionists from the Caribbean Region, Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, DOI: 10.1080/19320248.2023.2245777
updated 2024 July
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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:
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