1. Sustainable lifestyles, education and elephants
12 October 2015
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3. Global food regime:
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o Biggest single contributor to GHG emissions/climate change
4. Global food regime:
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o Biggest single contributor to GHG emissions/climate change
o A destroyer of the natural environment and biodiversity
5. Global food regime:
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o Biggest single contributor to GHG emissions/climate change
o A destroyer of the natural environment and biodiversity
o Biggest single contributor to human (ill)health
6. Global food regime:
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o Biggest single contributor to GHG emissions/climate change
o A destroyer of the natural environment and biodiversity
o Biggest single contributor to human (ill)health
o A major contributor to waste accumulation
7. The size of the food challenge
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9. Scope for action: regulation
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o Phase out subsidies for unsustainable food production
o Make it easy to dispose productively of ‘food waste’
10. Scope for action: education
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o Make it easy to calculate the FOODPRINT of recipes and menus
o Review education curricula for professionals in food production,
hygiene, public health
o Review curricula for schools: lifestyle courses, ESD
11. Scope for personal action
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o Support/join adult education for sustainable eating habits
o CSA: Community Supported Agriculture & other local
initiatives
13. Scope for research
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o Synthesize the various ‘sustainable agriculture’ approaches
o GHG impact of different methods
14. Scope for research
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o Synthesize the different ‘sustainable agriculture’ approaches
o GHG impact of alternative methods
o Nutritional impact of different stages of food production and
distribution
o The economics of small-scale farming in rich and poor
countries
15. Scope for research
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How the global food regime needs changing, to meet SDGs
16. How about…
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Next year not an elephant,
but on the menu?
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A global leader in sustainable
behaviour change
Marilyn Mehlmann
Head of development and training