Nutrition and sustainable food security
| Project start date: | 15 May 2011 |
| Project end date: | 30 June 2012 |
| Publication date: | 30 June 2012 |
| Project status: | Completed |
| Livestock species: | Sheep, Goat, Lamb, Grassfed cattle, Grainfed cattle |
Summary
Background
There is increasing interest in ensuring dietary recommendations are supportive of sustainability and food security. To effectively address concerns in this broad topic area requires collaboration with other relevant disciplines and stakeholders and an informed understanding of the role nutrition can play.
Purpose and description
To determine effective strategies for improving the sustainability of the Australian diet, MLA commissioned CSIRO to extend their modelling on greenhouse gas emissions associated with the Total Wellbeing Diet and the Australian diet to the recently released Australian Dietary Guidelines . MLA commissioned Dr Beverley Henry (QUT) to prepare an internal document on sustainability and food security from an environmental science and agricultural perspective in collaboration with relevant stakeholders to inform role of nutrition. Funding was awarded to Deakin University who identified a need for quantitative surveys with dietitians' and consumers' to determine their knowledge of and interest in receiving information on agriculture and sustainability.
Objective
To identify dietary strategies which address both health and sustainability needs.To determine information dietitians require regarding agricultural sustainability.
Outcome
1. Citations:Hendrie GA, Ridoutt BG, Wiedmann TO, Noakes M. Greenhouse gas emissions and the Australian diet – comparing dietary recommendations with average intakes. Nutrients 2014; 6:289-303. Seehttp://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/6/1/289Worsley A, Droulez V, Ridley S, Wang W. Dietitians' interests in primary food production: opportunities for greater involvement in the promotion of environmental sustainability. Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition 2014; 9(1): 64-80. Seehttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/19320248.2013.873010#.VCuFTPmSweoWorsley A, Wang W, Ridley S. Australian consumers' perceptions of environmental and agricultural threats: The associations of demographic and off psychographic variables. American Journal of Environmental Protection 2013; 3(1):10-18. See
http://article.sciencepublishinggroup.com/pdf/10.11648.j.ajep.20140301.12.pdf
2. Submission during review of Australian Dietary Guidelines.
