Alongside the global crisis of food systems, school meals programs are suggested as an opportunity to tackle food insecurity while promoting healthy, equitable meals and nutrition literacy to address some food system challenges. School Meals are a pivotal platform in the global transition to healthy and environmentally sustainable food systems. Therefore, promoting school food procurement from an agroecology approach that ensures agrobiodiversity and environmental sustainability while providing children with planet-healthy meals for their development is a timely necessity. In this talk, we will explore the relationship between regenerative soils and planet-friendly school meals and their implications for well-being, brain and mental health in children.
Join Rubén for a fascinating talk!
Dr Rubén Fernández-Rodríguez is a member of the Sport and Health University Research Institute (iMUDS)-University of Granada, Spain, the Food & Mood Centre, IMPACT, Deakin University (Australia), and the Grounded Minds Consortium. Rubén's research is mostly related to nutrition, mental and cardiometabolic health. His interests are related to sustainable and healthy diets that promote planetary health, with special attention to mental health and school meals interventions.
