Food Sustainability Flashcards

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Sustainable Diet Definition

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Diets with low environmental impacts, food and nutrition security, protective and respective, and optimizing natural and human resources.

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2
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3 Diets to help achieve as Sustainable Diet

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  1. EAT Lancet
  2. Blue Dot
  3. NZ Guidelines
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3
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EAT Lancet (5)

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diet healthy for people and the planet
- change eating habits
- improve food productions
- reduce food waste
plant based diet, restrict meats, mainly wholegrain

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4
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Blue Dot

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‘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.

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5
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NZ Guidleines

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includes thing about eating sustainably

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6
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Climate Change

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2002 NZ committed to the international treaty that commits to reducing greenhouse gas emissions

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7
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Decrease Earths Temp By

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1.5 degrees by 2050

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8
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6 Type of green house gasses in Order of amount

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Agricultural
Energy
Processes and product use
Water
Tokelau
and Land use and forestry (but this takes away CO2)

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9
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Agriculture Sector on Climate Change

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Dairy Industry and fertiliser the biggest impacts

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10
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1990-2022 emission from Agriculture increased by

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12%

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11
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Impact of Food on Carbon Emissions

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1/4 from food
1/2 of all food from animal products
1/2 of all animal products emissions come from beef and lamb

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12
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Life Cycle Assesment

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everything into it and everything out of it

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13
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In sheep farms where does the most of the emissions come from % in the process of lambs

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80% actually farming the sheep whilst on the farm

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14
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Cheese most emissions come from

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In the Vat (on the farm)

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15
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GHG emissions of Beef

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30

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16
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GHG emissions of Pork

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5-6

17
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GHG emissions of Chicken

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3

18
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GHG emissions of Plant foods

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less than 1

19
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Why do Animals have such high GHG

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they go through 2 systems
1. plants and grass
2. animals eat this grass and of the animals 45% is what humans eat and the other 55% is ‘waste’ in NZ. hence so high as over half of the animals is waste, compared to vege in which you eat must a of carrot for example

20
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Setting the Table

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Level One: large and most significant and immediate

21
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3 Ways to make our Diets more Sustainable

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  • reduce consumption of meat and dairy
  • reduce consuming foods with low nutritional value
  • reduce food waste
22
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Global Estimate of food loss and waste

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30-40%

23
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Measuring Food Waste in NZ

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12.3 = #SDG12
12.3.1 = food loss (manufactures and producers)
12.3.2 = food waste (consumer waste)

24
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Best to Worst outcome of Food Water

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Prevention
Reuse
Animal Feed
Recycling
Recovery
On Farm Disposal
Disposal

25
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NZ Top Wasted Food

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Bread

26
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In Restaurants what % of foods is wasted

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33%

27
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Supermarket Waste

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most goes to pig farmers

28
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Household Waste

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10 x more waste than supermarkets

29
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NZ Food Lost and Weight %

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10-20% less than global as we are a well developed country

30
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2 Ways to Reduce Waste in NZ

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  • Transport surplus food around NZ
  • Upcycling
31
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SDG and Indigenous People

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need to incorporate these people are they are the furtherest behind

32
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Amount of Land and Population of Indigenous People

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1/4 of land
5% of Population

33
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Food Security

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the availability of people to acquire appropriate and nutritious foods on a regular and reliable basis for a active and healthy life

34
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Food Sovereignty

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it is the right of people to eat healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through sustainable methods and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems

35
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% of NZ that are Pacific and their capital of the world

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8% and Auckland

36
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Pacific Food Insecurity

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long term effects on education, mental/physical health, financial strain and increase crimes committed

37
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Pacific’s People Food Influences (4)

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  • cost
  • availability
  • culture
  • quality and quantity
38
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SPEECH Factors and Pacific People

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Social
Political - promoting of unhealthy foods
Economic - fast foods are cheaper than healthy foods
Environmental - increase demand for pacific foods
Cultural - eat until your full
Health - fas food is normalised

39
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Pacific - Recommendations to improve their food Culture (3)

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  • Quality time is needed for quality food instead of quantity.
  • Pacific families growing food on their land
  • Lower costs of healthy foods