GEOGRAPHY

• Food ingredients


  • Olives from Spain
  • Tomatoes from Morocco
  • Cheese from the Netherlands
  • Salami from Italy
  • Flour from the USA
• A few thousand kilometres on your plate
• Our diet can be a bit more sustainable
• Food footprint


  Space needed for the production of food
• For the production of 1 kilo of meat, 50 to 250 m² is needed
• The world's population is growing and eating more and more meat
• To make room for meadows and fields for animal feed

  Other things have to disappear, for example tropical rainforest
• Feed footprint


  The space needed to grow your food
• The world population is becoming on average increasingly more prosperous
• The demand for meat is growing, so the food footprint is getting bigger and bigger
• Large-scale farming


  • Fewer farms, but they are getting bigger
  • Attempt to optimize the yield per animal or per hectare of land (intensification)
  • Requires knowledge and money (e.g. smart machines or robots)
• Biodiversity (the variety of plants and animals) is decreasing due to the focus on a limited number of crops and animals
• Sustainable food production


  Producing food without causing environmental degradation
• Options for sustainable food production

  • Throw away less food
  • Build food factories with optimum light and efficient water use
  • Practice organic farming with less fertilizer and pesticides
  • Modify crops to cope better with drought and diseases (genetic engineering)