Food provenance and food waste

Question 1

explain how understanding the origin of food allows consumers to make good food choices

Answer 1

some people feel that buying locally produce food means that it’s fresher, of better quality and can be trusted

Locally produce food has better carbon footprint

Fair trade labelling and food is a guaranteed to customers that are product was produced using epical methods and supporting workers in the developing world

Question 2

eight ways to reduce food miles

Answer 2

By local, grow your own vegetables, shop at farmers market, eat seasonally, pick your own learn to cook from scratch, walk or cycle to the shop, shop less frequently

Question 3

why is it not always better for the environment to grow food in the UK rather than importing it from other countries?

Answer 3

The court show that even though it reduces food miles when buying from UK it is less environmentally friendly to grow tomatoes in the UK under glass then it is tomato from Spain. The reason for this is that Spain’s warm climate does not require heated glass houses meaning the energy used transport into tomatoes from Spain is less than the energy would take to heat. Glass houses were going tomatoes in the UK.

Question 4

name four reasons for food packaging

Answer 4

To preserve the freshness of the product
To prevent contamination of the product
To protect the production from damage
To make the product easier to transport

Question 5

what is food to security?

Answer 5

The world food submit of 1996 defined food to create as existing when all people are all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and active lifestyle?

Question 6

Seven ways why there is food insecurity

Answer 6

poverty, health, water, and the environment, gender inequality, disaster and conflicts, population and urbanisation, trade