sustainable lifestyles, education and elephants

Sustainable lifestyles, education and elephants

12 October 2015

Global Action Plan International 2015 | globalactionplan.com | [email protected]

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Global food regime:


o Biggest single contributor to GHG emissions/climate change

Global food regime:


o Biggest single contributor to GHG emissions/climate changeo A destroyer of the natural environment and biodiversity

Global food regime:


o Biggest single contributor to GHG emissions/climate changeo A destroyer of the natural environment and biodiversityo Biggest single contributor to human (ill)health

Global food regime:


o Biggest single contributor to GHG emissions/climate changeo A destroyer of the natural environment and biodiversityo Biggest single contributor to human (ill)healtho A major contributor to waste accumulation

The size of the food challenge


Wrong direction…


Scope for action: regulation


o Phase out subsidies for unsustainable food productiono Make it easy to dispose productively of ‘food waste’

Scope for action: education


o Make it easy to calculate the FOODPRINT of recipes and menuso Review education curricula for professionals in food production,

hygiene, public healtho Review curricula for schools: lifestyle courses, ESD

Scope for personal action


o Support/join adult education for sustainable eating habitso CSA: Community Supported Agriculture & other local

initiatives

Better!


Scope for research


o Synthesize the various ‘sustainable agriculture’ approacheso GHG impact of different methods

Scope for research


o Synthesize the different ‘sustainable agriculture’ approaches o GHG impact of alternative methodso Nutritional impact of different stages of food production and

distributiono The economics of small-scale farming in rich and poor

countries

Scope for research


How the global food regime needs changing, to meet SDGs

How about…


Next year not an elephant,but on the menu?


A global leader in sustainable behaviour change

Marilyn MehlmannHead of development and training

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