ABSTRACT
Food environments are a critical place in the food system to support sustainable diets, as they contain the total scope of factors external to an individual that influence consumer food acquisition. This chapter highlights how food environments can support sustainable diets. We begin with an overview of definitions of food environments followed by a typology of different types of food environments as well as their characteristics. We emphasise the need to focus on the sustainability attributes of foods as a key entry point to reorient food environments to support sustainable diets. We contend that there is an urgent need for interventions, programs, and policies to ensure foods with multiple sustainability attributes are available, affordable, convenient, and desirable for consumers in the food environment. Lastly, we highlight challenges and opportunities for shaping food environments to support sustainable diets.
