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 4: Quality Education.
We welcome Original Research, Review, and Perspective articles covering topics including but not limited to:
● Ensuring equal opportunities to education for all, with a focus on nutrition related activities
● Impact of poverty and nutrition on the education of vulnerable children (e.g., disabled children, orphaned children, girls)
● Education for sustainable development: economics, environment and the impact on poverty and food security and nutrition
● Nutrition and early childhood development, including child feeding practices
● Nutrition education for healthy and sustainable food behaviours
● Nutrition education and professional development for teachers
● The impact of school food environments, school feeding programs, and/or nutrition education on school attendance, diet quality, malnutrition, and educational indicators
● Local communities and their involvement in school-based food and nutrition related activities
● Food-based dietary guideline implementation and education
● Teaching food and nutrition literacy with outdoor experiential education
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