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Why Food Matters

Explore how food impacts society, the environment, economy, and health. Delve into environmental indicators, biodiversity, food production, and the importance of sustainable practices. Understand the relationship between land use, water, calorie consumption, biodiversity loss, and economic disparities in food spending.

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Why Food Matters

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  1. Why Food Matters Social, Environmental, Economic and Diet

  2. Why Does it Matter? • Environmental indicators help us describe the current state of an environmental system. The five global environmental indicators are: 1. Biological diversity 2. Food production 3. Average global surface temp. & atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations 4. Human population 5. Resource depletion • 50-60% of CH4 and N2O emission (IPCC 4th Assessment) • Animals (this includes us) need to eat (Freeman2012)

  3. How we feed ourselves impacts all of these metrics.

  4. Impacts • Polluter of water • User of water • Land/ Habitat conversion • GHG emissions • 50-60% of CH4 and N2O emission (IPCC 4thAssessment) • Hunger

  5. What is it all about? • Calories • A calorie is a unit of energy • 1 cal = the amount of energy needed to raise the temp of 1 gram of water 1 ° C • Demo

  6. Water

  7. Land Use • https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2011/mar/29/agricultural-patterns-space

  8. Biodiversity

  9. Dwindling Variety • Over the course of 80 years (1903-1983), we lost 93% of the variety in our food seeds. • We went from 497 varieties of lettuce to 36 • We went from 288 varieties of beets to 17 • We went from 307 varieties of sweet corn to 12 • According to Rural Advancement Foundation International

  10. Focus on Increased Yield • Broiler Chickens

  11. Horses to Horse Power • X 400 = Shutter Stock.com

  12. American spending on food and health relative to disposable income. Source: USDA Briefing Room. Food Expenditures by Families and Individuals as a Share of Disposable

  13. Disproportionate Impact

  14. What is the difference? FSNE 2015

  15. Waste and Hunger

  16. SEED Framework • Them • Why social?  The social theme focuses on enhancing cultural and political considerations and embracing innovation as related to food systems—all on a human scale. • Why economic?  The economic theme focuses on markets and supply chains – and how regional models can positively and sustainably impact local, regional, national and global economies. • Why environmental?  The environmental theme seeks to address threats that adversely impact the sustainable production of food in our agricultural landscape, such as climate change, fossil fuel depletion, monoculture and pollution. • . • Why health? The diet and health theme focuses on solving our most pressing public health problems—diet and diet-related illnesses—which may be a consequence of our contemporary food systems, and also examines how social, environmental and economic environments affect health as it relates to food.

  17. Good Work Around the Region • Land • Land for Good • Regional Planning Commissions • Markets • NH Dept of Ag. • Extension • NH Farm to School • Education • See Previous • Who Grew My Lunch • Ag in the Classroom • Equitable Access • FRN • NH Gleans • Market Match

  18. References • Personal Income. Economic Research Service. Accessed 18 March 2009 at www.ers.usda.gov/briefing/ • CPIFoodAndExpenditures/Data/table7.htm; 2) Kaiser Family Foundation Health Care Spending in the • United States and OECD Countries, January 2007 Accessed 18 March 2009 at www.kff.org/insurance/ • snapshot/chcm010307oth.cfm • http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.AGRI.ZS • http://www.spectrumcommodities.com/education/commodity/statistics/corn.html

  19. References Cont. • http://farm.ewg.org/progdetail.php?fips=00000&progcode=corn • http://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe40s/crops_04.html • Wallinga, D. (2009) Journal of Hunger & Environment, Today’s Food System: How Healthy is it? • Ciulla, (2011) IRES Report

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