ICMR-NIN-led ‘Let’s Fix Our Food’ Consortium releases policy priorities for healthier diets for children and adolescents
Policy brief from the ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition-led 'Let's Fix Our Food' Consortium focuses on school food environments, food labelling, marketing restrictions, and fiscal tools to improve diets of children and adolescents in India.
- The consortium is a multi-institutional platform led by ICMR-NIN that works through research, policy analysis, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement.
- Food-environment reform is presented as a preventive public health approach to reduce diet-related non-communicable diseases among children and adolescents.
- The policy document covers school food environments, nutrition literacy, front-of-pack labelling, marketing restrictions, taxation, salt reduction, and youth engagement.
What happened
The ICMR-National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN)-led 'Let's Fix Our Food' (LFOF) Consortium released a policy document titled 'Priority Policy Actions to Promote Healthier Diets and Food Environments for Children and Adolescents in India'. The document sets out evidence-based policy priorities to improve food environments and dietary behaviour among children and adolescents in India.
The policy document was launched by Dr. M. Srinivas, Member (Health), NITI Aayog, at a dissemination and consultation workshop in New Delhi. The workshop included representatives from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), UNICEF India, Resolve to Save Lives (RTSL), consortium partners, researchers, development partners, and youth representatives.
UPSC can frame the issue around state responsibility in nutrition governance, regulation of ultra-processed and high-fat-salt-sugar foods, school-based food environments, and the balance between public health regulation and market interests. The topic also connects to behavioural change, fiscal tools, and inter-sectoral coordination among health, education, food regulation, and taxation authorities.
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