Nutrition & Dietetics journal’s special issue on food systems and sustainability - our reflections
By Dr Margaret Murray and Dr Liza Barbour On behalf of Monash Nutrition’s Planetary Health Working Group Photo by Tom Fisk. Sourced from Pexels. Available from here . Click here to access the Nutrition & Dietetics Special issue (published April 2023) Dietitians Australia must be applauded for their commitment and investment in promoting planetary health over the past five years in particular. They’ve endorsed a Role Statement for Dietitians working in the area of food systems and environmental sustainability, prioritised planetary health as a critical issue of our time at recent national conferences, updated National Competency Standards to reflect this broader duty of care, developed a Position Statement on Healthy and Sustainable Diets and the latest issue of their journal ( Nutrition & Dietetics ) is dedicated to food systems and sustainability research. The issue opens with an editorial from a trail-blazer in this area of dietetics practice, Professor Mark Lawrence fr