Food Sustainability Flashcards

(39 cards)

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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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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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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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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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Climate Change

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

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Decrease Earths Temp By

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1.5 degrees by 2050

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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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Agriculture Sector on Climate Change

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Dairy Industry and fertiliser the biggest impacts

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1990-2022 emission from Agriculture increased by

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12%

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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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Life Cycle Assesment

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everything into it and everything out of it

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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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Cheese most emissions come from

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In the Vat (on the farm)

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GHG emissions of Beef

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30

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GHG emissions of Pork

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GHG emissions of Chicken

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GHG emissions of Plant foods

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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

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Setting the Table

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Level One: large and most significant and immediate

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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
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Global Estimate of food loss and waste

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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)

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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

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NZ Top Wasted Food
Bread
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In Restaurants what % of foods is wasted
33%
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Supermarket Waste
most goes to pig farmers
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Household Waste
10 x more waste than supermarkets
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NZ Food Lost and Weight %
10-20% less than global as we are a well developed country
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2 Ways to Reduce Waste in NZ
- Transport surplus food around NZ - Upcycling
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SDG and Indigenous People
need to incorporate these people are they are the furtherest behind
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Amount of Land and Population of Indigenous People
1/4 of land 5% of Population
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Food Security
the availability of people to acquire appropriate and nutritious foods on a regular and reliable basis for a active and healthy life
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Food Sovereignty
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
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% of NZ that are Pacific and their capital of the world
8% and Auckland
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Pacific Food Insecurity
long term effects on education, mental/physical health, financial strain and increase crimes committed
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Pacific's People Food Influences (4)
- cost - availability - culture - quality and quantity
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SPEECH Factors and Pacific People
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
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Pacific - Recommendations to improve their food Culture (3)
- Quality time is needed for quality food instead of quantity. - Pacific families growing food on their land - Lower costs of healthy foods