Designing sustainable food systems and consumption patterns : current insights from the Wuppertal Institute's research into sustainable food
- Nutrition is one of the most important areas for the great transformation. So how can a shift towards a sustainable food system be achieved? This paper addresses this question - based on more than ten years of research on sustainable nutrition at the Wuppertal Institute. It focuses on public catering, because even small changes - for example in the choice of ingredients - have a huge impact here. With appropriate policy frameworks, public catering can serve as an easily accessible place for consumers to experience sustainable food and at the same time be a reliable buyer of biodiversity and climate-friendly food from farmers. However, other actors are also needed for a transformation of the food system: The "Zukunftsimpuls" addressesNutrition is one of the most important areas for the great transformation. So how can a shift towards a sustainable food system be achieved? This paper addresses this question - based on more than ten years of research on sustainable nutrition at the Wuppertal Institute. It focuses on public catering, because even small changes - for example in the choice of ingredients - have a huge impact here. With appropriate policy frameworks, public catering can serve as an easily accessible place for consumers to experience sustainable food and at the same time be a reliable buyer of biodiversity and climate-friendly food from farmers. However, other actors are also needed for a transformation of the food system: The "Zukunftsimpuls" addresses politics, (agricultural) industry, science and every individual - because the transformation of the food system is a task for the entire society.…
Document Type: | Working Paper |
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Author: | Melanie Speck, Christa LiedtkeORCiDGND, Lena Hennes, Xenia El Mourabit, Lynn Wagner |
URN (citable link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:wup4-opus-78571 |
DOI (citable link): | https://doi.org/10.48506/opus-7857 |
Publisher: | Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie |
Place of publication: | Wuppertal |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Number of page: | 28 |
Series Title (English): | Zukunftsimpuls |
Volume: | 19 |
Language: | English |
Divisions: | Nachhaltiges Produzieren und Konsumieren |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
Licence: | Creative Commons - CC BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |