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Food sustainability - Coggle Diagram
Food sustainability
Individual
Healty lifestyle
Consuming sustainable food options allows students to make the right food choices … Overall, choosing healthy and sustainable foods have the potential of boosting the health of students in the school.
Food budget
Food can get expensive, especially when trying to eat healthier, so food budget plays an important role for students. If they cannot afford it they would probably lead to poor food choices like fast food.
Over ordering foods
When people tend to waste their leftover food, it increases in personal environmental footprint. The production, transportation, and disposal of uneaten food contribute to unnecessary greenhouse gas emissions
Community
Campus culture
Having a campus culture on food sustainability would help promote it around the school and encourage everyone
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Global
Inflation
Rising cost of products, Food prices would increase.
Climate change
When we waste food, we also waste all the energy and water it takes to grow, harvest, transport, and package it. And if food goes to the landfill and rots, it produces methane—a greenhouse gas even more potent than carbon dioxide. About 6%-8% of all human-caused greenhouse gas emissions could be reduced if we stop wasting food. The connection between food loss and waste and climate change is increasingly recognized
With food wastage, more food is demanded so more cargo ships of food and on plane will produce more CO2 just for transportation
Nation/ soceity
Public health
Every unit of food wasted is equivalent to the amount of resources required to produce that unit of wasted food. This would lead to environmental pollution The decomposition of food waste in landfills generates methane, contributing to local air and water pollution and health issues for residents.
Economic health
If the economic health in the country is bad, more people would not be able to enjoy a healthy diet due to money issues.