WEBINAR ON DIETARY GUIDELINES
Dietary guidelines are essential for each country to develop. More than 100 countries have developed dietary guidelines. The international community has recognized the potential and need for dietary guidelines to advance the transformation of food systems towards desirability and influence policy beyond the scope of consumer education. However, there is currently a lack of global guidance and tools to facilitate this. RASSEA, RELASER in collaboration with FAO on April 30 2024, held a webinar on dietary guidelines. This webinar presents speakers from FAO and the National Food Agency of the Republic of Indonesia.

FAO presented as speakers Ana Islas Ramos, Nutrition Officer Food and Nutrition Division, FAO and Rinna Syawal from the National Food Agency, who delivered material related to the food consumption situation and implementation of B2SA in Indonesia.


This webinar on dietary guidelines was attended by 30 participants from various institutions, such as the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Indonesia, Ministry of Agriculture, IPB University, Agriculture and Food Crops Service Bogor Regency, Agriculture and Food Crops Service Bali Province, Extension Coordinator agriculture and from various other institutions.

This webinar concludes several things as follows:
- Good nutrition starts with what we eat, making healthy diets a cornerstone solution for addressing all forms of malnutrition
- The international community has recognized the potential and need for dietary guidelines to catalyze food systems’ transformation towards sustainability and influence policies beyond consumer education’s scope. However, there is currently a lack of global guidance and tools to facilitate this.
- The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has developed the new food systems-based dietary guidelines (FSBDGs) methodology through a collaborative process involving multiple global, regional, and country-level experts to fill this gap.
- Dietary guidelines are evidence-based recommendations that outline what a healthy diet represents in a country
- Dietary Guidelines have a vast potential to promote healthy diets from sustainable food systems by informing policies, programmes and investments throughout the food system
- Dietary guidelines must be better developed, communicated, implemented and evaluated to unpack their potential. In particular, they need to embrace a food systems approach to diets
- There is a growing international demand for dietary guidelines to integrate sustainability considerations. It is not an option but a need
- More than 100 countries have developed Dietary guidelines; it is time we see the results of these efforts in terms of behaviour change and food system transformation on the ground
- Ag extension and RAS stakeholders have a role to play in the FSBDGs to bring about new ways of thinking and acting about food systems for healthy diets and sustainability
- Indonesia has several related regulations regarding dietary guidelines
- Indonesia is developing the concept of diverse, nutritious, balanced and safe food (in Bahasa B2SA).
- B2SA is a variety of foods that must be consumed in balanced quantities, following recommended nutritional adequacy and free from physical, chemical and biological contamination
- B2SA doesn’t have to be expensive and can take advantage of local food that is easily accessible.

Webinar materials on dietary guidelines can be downloaded below:
How to Develop and Implement Dietary Guidelines with a Food Systems Approach: FAO Food systems-based dietary guidelines: Entry points for Ag Extension and RAS – Ana Islas Ramos
FSBDG_Extension-2024-1Situasi Konsumsi Pangan dan Implementasi B2SA di Indonesia (Current Status of The Dietary and B2SA Implementation in Indonesia) – Rinna Syawal
MATERI-BAPANAS-Rassea-Presenter_panduan-diet-indonesia_compressed