Whilst the environmental footprint from food continues to rise, governments, industry and civil society groups throughout the world are frustrated by the lack of evidence for specifying an environmentally sustainable diet, and are therefore constrained in their ability to support people to eat in a healthy and sustainable way.

This ARC Discovery Project Grant (2013-2015) builds on, and complements the foundational climate change, food systems and health research which is predominantly concerned with the articulation of a healthy and sustainable diet and the cross-sectoral policy responses needed to achieve it. The aim of the project is to identify the changes needed in consumer behaviour to improve the environmental sustainability of their diets and identify ways in which these changes could be achieved.