Eating for the environment

‘You are what you eat’, goes the old adage, but what you eat also has an impact on the environment.  TranscriptThis free course, Eating forthe environment, will explore the links between food, nutrition and environmental sustainability. It will start by exploring the diversity on your dinner plate and encourage you to reflect on it in relation to dietary choices and preferences of people around the world. It will explore the connections between food, culture and traditions, and the challenges in providing healthy and nutritious food to the world’s growing population. The course will examine innovative approaches to food that also help environmental sustainability.

• Introduction
• Learning outcomes
• 1 Nutrition security
• 1 Nutrition security
• 2 Dietary choices and preferences
• 2 Dietary choices and preferences
• 3 ‘You are what you eat’
• 3 ‘You are what you eat’
• 4 Diversity on your dinner plate
• 4 Diversity on your dinner plate
• 4.1 Exploring Dinner Plate Diversity
• 4.2 The diversity of edible species
• 4.3 The biodiversity of your diet
• 5 Food, culture and traditions
• 5 Food, culture and traditions
• 5.1 Food and culture
• 6 Unconventional food
• 6 Unconventional food
• 6.1 Frontier food
• Conclusion
• References
• Acknowledgements