About this Research Topic
Building on the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the cornerstone of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, billed by the UN as “an agenda of unprecedented scope and significance.” These seventeen goals are conceived as integrated, indivisible, and as balancing the economic, social and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. To be achieved by 2030, the goals are organized around five core pillars: people, planet, prosperity, peace and partnership. As a member of the SDGs Publishers Compact, Frontiers is committed to advocating the themes represented by the SDGs and accelerating progress to achieve them.
Nutrition sits at the heart of the SDGs. In addition to achieving ‘Zero Hunger’ (SDG2), improvements in nutrition are critical to both achieve and reap the benefits of all seventeen global goals. With good nutrition comes improved health and wellbeing (SDG3), enhanced educational and work productivity (SDGs 4 and 8), less poverty (SDG1) and reduced inequalities (SDGs 5 and 10). And with stronger and more sustainable environments, communities, and technologies (SDGs 6, 7, 9, 11-17) improved food security and nutrition will follow. As part of an innovative collection showcasing nutrition in the context of the SDGs, this Research Topic will focus on Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land.
We welcome Original Research, Review, and Perspective articles covering topics including but not limited to:
● Dietary quality in relation to land use, biodiversity, and environmental pollution
● Impact of crop species richness and dietary species richness on health and nutritional outcomes
● Use of edible non-woody forestry resources, wild animals, alien species, and other unconventional food resources (e.g., mushrooms, plants), related to food security and nutritional outcomes
● Land sharing, land sparing, and the maintenance of biodiversity
● Innovation in agricultural production and distribution to maintain food self-sufficiency in the face of population and demand growth
● Sustainable agricultural intensification and ecological protection and restoration
● Indigenous multipurpose tree species, uses, chemical composition, and so forth
● Land restoration, economic impact of land degradation
● Adaptation to land degradation
● Human-forest relations and forest stewardship
Explore the other collections within the Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal series:
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Consumption
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Nutrition sits at the heart of the SDGs. In addition to achieving ‘Zero Hunger’ (SDG2), improvements in nutrition are critical to both achieve and reap the benefits of all seventeen global goals. With good nutrition comes improved health and wellbeing (SDG3), enhanced educational and work productivity (SDGs 4 and 8), less poverty (SDG1) and reduced inequalities (SDGs 5 and 10). And with stronger and more sustainable environments, communities, and technologies (SDGs 6, 7, 9, 11-17) improved food security and nutrition will follow. As part of an innovative collection showcasing nutrition in the context of the SDGs, this Research Topic will focus on Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land.
We welcome Original Research, Review, and Perspective articles covering topics including but not limited to:
● Dietary quality in relation to land use, biodiversity, and environmental pollution
● Impact of crop species richness and dietary species richness on health and nutritional outcomes
● Use of edible non-woody forestry resources, wild animals, alien species, and other unconventional food resources (e.g., mushrooms, plants), related to food security and nutritional outcomes
● Land sharing, land sparing, and the maintenance of biodiversity
● Innovation in agricultural production and distribution to maintain food self-sufficiency in the face of population and demand growth
● Sustainable agricultural intensification and ecological protection and restoration
● Indigenous multipurpose tree species, uses, chemical composition, and so forth
● Land restoration, economic impact of land degradation
● Adaptation to land degradation
● Human-forest relations and forest stewardship
Explore the other collections within the Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal series:
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 1: No Poverty
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 2: Zero Hunger
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Wellbeing
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 4: Quality Education
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 5: Gender Equality
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 6: Clean Water and Sanitation
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 7: Affordable and Clean Energy
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 9: Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 10: Reduced Inequalities
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Consumption
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 13: Climate Action
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 14: Life Below Water
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 15: Life on Land
• Nutrition and Sustainable Development Goal 17: Partnerships for the Goals
Keywords: Sustainable Development Goals, sustainability, nutrition, food, health, agriculture, diet, food system, food security, SDG, Life on Land, Farming, Crops
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