The Let’s Fix Our Food (LFOF) Consortium’s new policy roadmap, ‘Priority Policy Actions to Promote Healthier Diets and Food Environments for Children and Adolescents in India was launched in New Delhi. The new roadmap presents evidence-informed policy recommendations for both national and state level policy makers and to promote healthier diets across key domains, including:
- Healthy school food environments
- Nutrition literacy
- Front-of-pack nutrition labelling
- Regulation of unhealthy food marketing to children
- Healthier dietary fats
- Salt reduction
- Low-sodium salt substitutes
- Social and behaviour change communication
- Youth engagement
- Fiscal measures
The roadmap is the result of two years of consultations with global, regional, and national experts, as well as adolescents themselves. The LFOF consortium undertook joint research initiatives with the consortium partners. RTSL contributed research and technical support throughout.
Dr. M. Srinivas, Member (Health), NITI Aayog, presented the roadmap at the launch event in New Delhi, where he was joined by ICMR-NIN Director Dr. Bharati Kulkarni, Prof. K. Srinath Reddy of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and representatives from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI), UNICEF India, RTSL and other partners. The launch included the LFOF website, the Nutrition Environment Assessment Toolkit for Schools (NEAT-S) report and new food literacy resources for adolescents.
Led by the Indian Council of Medical Research–National Institute of Nutrition (ICMR-NIN), LFOF began in 2021 with guidance from NITI Aayog; it now includes RTSL, UNICEF, WHO, WFP, FSSAI, PHFI and other partners. In 2026, WHO featured LFOF as a global case study, and NITI Aayog’s annual report named it a key nutrition strategy. Next, the LFOF consortium partners including RTSL will work to translate these policy actions into implementation across Indian states.
