Food sustainability Flashcards
How can you describe/define food sustainability
 Food production processing distribution ,consumption and waste management in order to enhance environmental, economic and social health of a particular place 
Sustainable food is… Name five 
Ecologically responsible
Fair and accessible
Local
No waste
Healthy 
What does food production dude to our environment?
Deforestation and habitat and biodiversity loss
What is the biggest driver for deforestation? 
Agriculture, farmers cut forces to provide more room for planting crops, or gazing livestock
Not only agriculture, but what else causes deforestation
Summers caused by a combination of human and natural factors, like wildfires and subs cute, over gazing, which may prevent growth of young trees
What is habitat destruction
The process by which natural habitat is rear-ended and capable of supporting its native species 
Name some casual factors that affect habitat destruction 
Population consumption and resource efficiency
Name some indirect drivers that affect habitat destruction
Agriculture and forestry fishing and hunting urban industry what are use energy in transport
Name some direct pressures on biodiversity and ecosystems 
Habitat, loss, altercation, fragmentation over exploitation, invasive, species, population, climate change 
Future adhered to a hierarchy of consumption….
1 feed people first
2 can’t feed people, feed it to animals
3 convert food unfit for animals to energy
4 lastly, compost food waste
What’s the problem with food going to a landfill?
Food has come back to the landfill and most of it can take years to break down which produces methane gas into the atmosphere
What time
It was mentioned in the film that nothing gas is ——— times more potent than CO2 
23
