Search for tag: "food waste"
Reducing food waste in schools, using behavioural insightsFood waste is a global issue, compromising both human health and environmental sustainability. Schools alone contribute substantial amounts of avoidable food waste to this problem. For instance, the…
From SDG Academy
6 plays
|
|
Marine Food ChainsLearn about marine food chains with special attention to why fish populations can actually be overexploited. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
From SDG Academy
7 plays
|
|
Q&A | Jessica Fanzo | 2017 Apr. 7Jessica Fanzo answers questions relating to food waste and Module 3 of the "Feeding a Hungry Planet" course. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
From SDG Academy
2 plays
|
|
Food Loss and Food Waste in the MediterraneanThis chapter discusses food loss and food waste along the food supply chain in the Mediterranean, explains the opportunities for food loss and food waste at the consumer level and through societal…
From SDG Academy
11 plays
|
|
Challenges for Food Loss and Food Waste and Opportunities for ReductionEvery night, 795 million people go to bed hungry although we produce sufficient food to provide an average 2700 kilocalories every day per person. Four billion metric tons of food produced annually.…
From SDG Academy
768 plays
|
|
Sustainable Livestock SystemsThis chapter discusses the issues surrounding livestock production. Livestock is produced for high-value protein, but the justification of intense production of livestock on the grounds of carbon…
From SDG Academy
23 plays
|
|
Good AgronomyGood agronomy is the center of good farming: it means the law of the field, or how to grow a crop successfully. Nowadays, its largely about managing the complex interactions between genotype and…
From SDG Academy
17 plays
|
|
Sustainable Agriculture IntensificationThere are five components to a sustainable health-enhancing food system: nutritious, healthier diets and safe food; less losses and waste; increased productivity on the existing crop and pasture…
From SDG Academy
59 plays
|
|
Food Losses and WasteThis chapter discusses how and where in the food chain food is lost and wasted, how this impacts food security, and potential solutions for reducing loss and waste. Food loss and waste refers to the…
From SDG Academy
58 plays
|
|
The Need to Reduce Uncertainties in Global Land Use InformationIn this chapter, Steffen Fritz talks about the need to reduce uncertainties in global land-use information. Information about global pressure points can be retrieved using remote sensing information,…
From SDG Academy
13 plays
|
|
Ecosystem ConversionThis chapter covers ecosystem conversion, and specifically the ways in which humans convert natural landscapes so that they have a productive form for human ends whether that is for agricultural or…
From SDG Academy
14 plays
|