Evidence platform for agrifood systems and nutrition

Focus Area 3.3 Equal and equitable access to healthy diets through sustainable food systems
Sub-focus Area 3.3.3 Monitoring new technologies and promoting trends for healthy diets through sustainable food systems

Recommendation Number: 3.3.3.b

Governments should recognize the growing trend of food purchased online and consumed away from home (including street food) and could, as appropriate to national circumstances, promote policies to encourage restaurants and online outlets to offer prepared dishes made from nutritious, safe and sustainably produced foods that contribute to healthy diets, display information about food on menus (i.e. calories, product composition, and other nutritional content as well as other relevant science and evidence-based information such as related to sustainable production and consumption, based on, where appropriate, indicators of 2030 Agenda), avoid food loss and waste, and respect food safety regulations.

The identified documents have been grouped into four categories: UN evidence-informed documents, UN normative guidance documents, UN operational/technical guidance documents and other documents that have been published by non-UN bodies.