Food Sustainability Flashcards
Sustainable Diet Definition
Diets with low environmental impacts, food and nutrition security, protective and respective, and optimizing natural and human resources.
3 Diets to help achieve as Sustainable Diet
- EAT Lancet
- Blue Dot
- NZ Guidelines
EAT Lancet (5)
diet healthy for people and the planet
- change eating habits
- improve food productions
- reduce food waste
plant based diet, restrict meats, mainly wholegrain
Blue Dot
‘the world is just one blue dot’
- decrease meat
- increase plant proteins
- increase wholegrain
- decrease dairy
found that lots of people had the intention to eat more sustainably but way less actually did.
NZ Guidleines
includes thing about eating sustainably
Climate Change
2002 NZ committed to the international treaty that commits to reducing greenhouse gas emissions
Decrease Earths Temp By
1.5 degrees by 2050
6 Type of green house gasses in Order of amount
Agricultural
Energy
Processes and product use
Water
Tokelau
and Land use and forestry (but this takes away CO2)
Agriculture Sector on Climate Change
Dairy Industry and fertiliser the biggest impacts
1990-2022 emission from Agriculture increased by
12%
Impact of Food on Carbon Emissions
1/4 from food
1/2 of all food from animal products
1/2 of all animal products emissions come from beef and lamb
Life Cycle Assesment
everything into it and everything out of it
In sheep farms where does the most of the emissions come from % in the process of lambs
80% actually farming the sheep whilst on the farm
Cheese most emissions come from
In the Vat (on the farm)
GHG emissions of Beef
30