MICRO-MESO-MACRO levels
The transition to healthy and sustainable dietary behaviour must operate at 3 embedded levels.
MICRO-LEVEL
MICRO-LEVEL – INDIVIDUALS
Level of dietary behaviours of individual consumers/ households and related:
- intrapersonal (physiological, psychological, sociodemographic and lifestyle) and
- interpersonal factors (family, peers, other close social networks).
MESO-LEVEL
MESO-LEVEL – FOOD ENVIRONMENT
Level of social, digital and physical food environments, including both:
- the practices / mechanisms through which food chain actors shape these environments (e.g. marketing, supply of foods, etc.) and
- the influences these environments have on dietary patterns (at collective level).
MACRO-LEVEL
MACRO-LEVEL – FOOD SYSTEM
Level of ‘the’ food system, considering its 5 main clusters of drivers:
- biophysical and environmental
- innovation technology and infrastructure
- political, economic and commercial
- socio-cultural
- demographic
and corresponding key leverage points.