This document summarizes the online consultation Promoting sustainable food systems for healthy diets in Europe and Central Asia: the key role of school food and nutrition programmes, which was held on the FAO Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN Forum) from 7 November to 18 December 2017.

The online consultation was initiated by the FAO project “Developing Capacity for Strengthening Food Security and Nutrition in Selected Countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia” (funded by the Russian Federation and led by the FAO Agricultural Development Economics Division) in collaboration with the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia, the FAO Nutrition and Food Systems Division, and the Social and Industrial Foodservice Institute (SIFI). 

This online consultation complemented the Regional Symposium on Sustainable Food Systems for Healthy Diets in Europe and Central Asia, which took place in Budapest on 4–5 December 2017.

Over the six weeks of consultation, 22 contributions were shared by individual participants and technical teams from 13 countries: Armenia, Italy, Islamic Republic of Iran, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, France, Russian Federation, Samoa, Serbia, Sweden, Tajikistan, United Kingdom and Uzbekistan.