food is life – save food
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http://www.fao.org/save-food/info-resources/presentations/en/ Save Food presentation for primary school children: the purpose of this presentation is to educate the young students on the topic of food waste since this seems to be an issue in the school canteens. This approach also seems to be a cost-effective way of raising awareness.TRANSCRIPT
Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations
FOOD IS LIFE – SAVE FOOD
Where does our FOOD come from?
Where does MILK come
from?
Where does PASTA come
from?
Where does our FOOD come from?
Where does MEAT come
from?
Where do TOMATO
come from?
Food products come from a FARM
From the farm, the food goes to a FACTORY
Wheat grains
Old wind mill and milling
stones
Wheat mill
Wheat flour
From the factory, the food goes to the MARKET or SHOP
Bread Pasta Wheat flour
Then your parents buy
it, and cook your
meal
From the farm, the food goes to a FACTORY
Milking a cow by hand
Milking a cow by
machine
Milk cooling tank Milk
factory
From the factory, the food goes to the MARKET or SHOP
Fresh milk
Yoghurt
Cheese
Butter
Then your parents
buy it, and cook your
meal
From the FARM, the food goes to a FACTORY
Pig abattoir
Cutting the meat
Making ham
From the factory, the food goes to the MARKET or SHOP
Ham Minced meat
Pork Salami
Then your parents
buy it, and cook your
meal
Sausage
From the FARM, the food goes to a FACTORY
Tomato harvest
Tomato canning factory
From the factory, the food goes to the MARKET or SHOP
Tomato puree
Peeled tomatoes
Fresh tomatoes
Then your parents buy it, and cook your meal
Peeled tomatoes In poor countries, there are a lot of problems.
Food gets spoiled and lost
before people can buy it or eat it.
If there is no water, then the crops die.
Drought in Africa
Irrigation in America
Farmers in poor countries don’t have enough money to water the crops.
Pests can eat or spoil the food on the farm.
Locusts
Tomato diseases
If there is no food for the animals, they die.
Farmers in poor countries don’t have enough money
to buy food for the animals.
Tomato diseases
Crops and animals can get sick and die.
There is not enough medicine for sick crops
and animals
Food can get spoilt before it gets to the factory.
Tomato diseases
Grain storage in Africa
Grain storage in Europe
Insects and rats eat the maize
Food can get spoilt before it gets to the factory.
Taking milk to the factory in Pakistan
Taking milk to the factory in Italy
Insects and rats eat the maize
If there are no factories, people have to do it themselves.
Maize pounding into flour in Africa
Making tomato paste in Africa
Insects and rats eat the maize
If the markets are not clean, food gets spoilt.
Vegetable market in India
Vegetable market in Italy
Insects and rats eat the maize
Insects and rats eat the maize
In rich countries, food is prepared well……
BUT: People throw
away good food !!!
People buy too much food for
the house.
People cook too much for diner, and they don’t keep the
left-overs for the next day.
Insects and rats eat the maize
People throw away food that they can’t
finish eating
Bakeries throw away good bread if it is
one day old
Insects and rats eat the maize
Insects and rats eat the maize
If supermarkets have too much vegetables, they throw them away
Farmers throw away good food products with funny shapes
People in rich countries throw away
good food, and in poor countries
children are hungry every day.
If people in rich countries throw away food, food gets more expensive everywhere.
Poor people cannot buy the food
anymore.
Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction
Food and Agriculture Organization
of the United Nations
QUESTIONS AND
GOOD IDEAS FROM THE CLASS