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Food sustainability - Coggle Diagram
Food sustainability
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Healthy eating
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Health - increase in medical bills, less money to spend for schooling, nutritional food, growth, agriculture.
Obesity - health conditions, daily activity obstruction,
diet
food production depends on the diet that is most common in the region, for example in america the obesity levels are high which means that the food production focuses on fast food, and processed foods rather than healthy food.
in Malawi, agriculture focuses on mono-cropping. this means there is a lot of supply of one crop, and in this case its maize
this affects soil health because due to growing the same crop multiple times the soil gets stripped of nutrients
Agriculture
insufficient funds
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climate change
weather patterns: a lot of the agriculture in developing regions use rains as a resource, and due to climate change, dry seasons have been extended.
natural distasters
after a disaster, land is difficult to maintain, and a lot of money is needed to get the land back in its natural state
Environmental Impact
Impacts
- 25% of greenhouse gas emissions
come from the production of food.
- The sector of food product that
cause the most emission is beef,
followed by lamb, prawns, and
cheese.
- Ocean and fresh water pollution
- 78% of ocean and fresh water
pollution is related to or direct
comes from agriculture.
- Mammal and bird biodiversity
- 94% of mammals excluding
humans are for livestock.
Furthermore, 71% of bird diversity
are poultry.
- 50% of the world's habitable land
is used for farming
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- 70% of the world's water
withdrawal is used for agriculture
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