for this paper you need to choose and further research two contemporary issues
The objective of this assignment is for you to evaluate your own position as a consumer and a citizen in an increasingly unstable global food system.Our eating practices have both environmental and social impacts.How can we change the way we consume to make the food system more sustainable globally?
The Atlas of Food outlines the technological, industrial, economic, environmental, social, and political aspects of the food system. For this paper you need to choose and further research two contemporary issues of the global food system that are contributing to its growing instability.You should address how this issue is impacting the food system and how, if applicable, the food system is contributing to this issue. For example, green house gas emissions.How are green house gas emissions impacting the food system and the environment?How is agriculture contributing to green house gas emissions?Other examples include but are not limited to:
- Food waste
- Meat production and consumption
- Fishing and aquaculture
- Trade agreements
- Water use
- Large scale food production
- Inadequate food distribution
In addition, you need to include concrete individual strategies you can adopt to help make these issues within the food system more sustainable.In Where am I eating? Timmerman states, “What happens in our community happens in the rest of the world. And what happens to the rest of the world happens to us.The global is local.” Please address examples of how you can overcome the challenges to becoming a more engaged citizen/consumer in the food system.
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Sustainable Global Food System
Among some of the most effective ways to address health issues in society lies access to proper nutrition and food products. For society to address health issues on a global platform then there should be a clear analysis of some of the factors that have so far contributed to the health challenges, associated with poor nutrition in the world economy. For instance, it ought to be possible to explain the prevalence of obesity and obesity-related healthcare complications in the developed societies, while some of the population in third world countries suffers from malnutrition and extensively low body weights. Consequently, these conditions are not only related to nutrition, but also have far-reaching consequences on the heath of the affected individuals and countries
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