AI-based education for sustainability and the promotion of lifestyle and healthy diet: sustainable AI education for healthy lifestyles

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is supporting formal education and developing adaptive lifelong learning environments and offering an array of flexible, inclusive, and interactive tools, particularly for the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), targeted for 2030, and supported by all 193 member states of the United Nations. AI is assumed to play a key role to raising awareness about the management of food discards and byproducts for a circular economy, thus optimizing the resources' efficiency and slowing down their economic, social, and environmental impacts. As expected by the Food and Agriculture Organization experts, a reduction of food losses and wastes along production, supply chains and consumption will promote lifestyle despite the pessimistic consequences of the climate change. This chapter provides an overview of the AI applications and challenges to promote sustainable food habits and to monitor and manage local food byproducts suitable for human consumption to develop nutritional and healthy added-value outcomes