Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Food Sustainability
- Development that meets the needs of the
present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own
needs
- Sustainability implies the use
of resources at rules that do
not exceed the capacity of the
Earth to replace them
- What is Food
sustainability?
- Provides a viable livelihood for farmers,
processors and retailers, whose employees
enjoy a sage and hygiene working environment
- supports rural economies + diversity of
rural cultures= keep food miles to a
minimum
- nourishing food in a good price=
affordable
- Food miles- supports locally/globally, carbon
footprint included
- Sustainable food should be produced, processed
and traded in way that:
- contribute to thriving local economies and sustainable
livelihood
- protect the diversity of both plants and animals, avoid
damage natural resources
- provide social
benefits
- Why
Sustainability?
- help protect the
environment
- promote personal/ public
health
- save family farms
- promote animal
welfare
- protect
workers
- Economic
- subsistence
farming
- imports and
exports
- supports for developing
countries
- Fairtrade
- formed in 1992
- stable price
- environmentally sound &
healthy organic production
- less child labour
- Ecological
- energy
use
- water use and
pollution
- soil
quality
- pesticides and
fertilisers
- natural reserves-
oil
- animal
welfare
- climate- global warming and
GHGs
- biodiversity
- rural landscape
- Sustainability supply
chain
- safe, healthy product, market
demand, nutritious, accurate
information
- support viability of rural and
urban environment/communities
- respect biological limits
- high environmental
performance
- high animal
welfare
- sustain production
resources
- Key areas in the food supply
chain
- Yield
- energy
use
- water use
- waste
management
- reduce materials
input
- recycle/reduce/reuse
- main aim to reduce production of it
- office- paper, printer, lighting
- production- packaging, pallets, ingredients waste
- reduce
consumption(reduce
on site movement,
transport
- change to lower emission fuels (biofuels)
- Green supplier- wind turbines, solar
- biotechnology
- GM
- Fertilisers/ pesticides
- Sustainable retailing
- huge growth of
supermarket
- cheap product
- sustainability initiatives now part of
corporate social responsbility
- How do we improve
sustainability as
consumer?
- sustainabile diets
- less meat + lower environmental
impacts + healthier
- Food choice are however embedded in household
practives, lifestyle, local national or religious cultures
- Consuming meat is not just about nutrition, it is an
important part of peoples identity and not easily
changable
- Oxfam sustainable diet
- waste less food
- reduce consumption of diary
and meat product
- buy fair trade products
- buy other foods from
developing countries
- future
sustainable
food
production
- policy to
conserve soil
quality
- Consumer
making
informed
choice
- What drives our food system?
- global trends in population and affluence
- food prices/ availability
- change in diet
- food waste
- change in supply chain
- water
- phosphate- limited resources= demand is predicted to increase by 50-100% by 2050
- biodiversity loss