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TITLE Sustainable Nutrition as a Business Strategy: An ESG-Based Analysis of How Nutrition/Food Companies Position, Govern, and Measure Sustainable Nutrition
ABSTRACT This paper discusses sustainable nutrition as a corporate strategy using Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) framework in the food and nutrition sector. The paper examines the positioning, governing and measurement of sustainable nutrition initiatives by companies using secondary data through academic literature, corporate ESG reports and international guidelines. The results indicate that sustainable nutrition is now a strategic requirement that has an effect on corporate value generation, population health, and environmental practise. Nonetheless, there are still issues of consistency in governance, standardisation of metrics and transparency of reporting. This paper concludes that strong systems of governance and acceptable systems of measurement are a necessary mechanism of entrenching sustainable nutrition as a long-term, ESG-based business strategy
AUTHOR Nevan Jasra Dhirubhai Ambani International School, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
VOLUME 13
DOI DOI:10.15680/IJARETY.2026.1302015
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