Registered charity number 1153740 - PowerPoint Presentation

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Registered charity number 1153740

FOOD MILES

SUSTAINABLE FOOD

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WHERE DOES OUR FOOD COME FROM?

Photo: Britney Lindsay

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From Pasture To Plate

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Photo: eltpics

Global Food

A study has found that more than half of the UK’s food and feed now comes from overseas

(The Guardian 2016)

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Why Does Our Food Need to Travel Miles?

Photo: Jon Brew

Tea pickers returning with sacks of tea, Munnar, India

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Food miles are the distance food travels from where it is grown to where it is ultimately purchased or consumed

Going Bananas Over Food Miles

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Photo: Tim Vo

Bananas are grown in tropical regions, such as Central America, where the average temperature is 27 degrees celsius

The coloured polyethylene bags protect the bananas from wind and from attacks of insects or birds

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Photo: Heather

Each banana plant produces one huge bunch.

The time between planting a banana plant and the harvest of the banana bunch is from 9 to 12 months

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Photo: Roger W

Bunches of bananas are brought to the processing station by a conveyor system or carried carefully by workers. Bunches can weigh over 100 pounds.

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Photo: Ali Eminov

The bananas are washed, inspected and cut into ‘hands' of 6 bananas. Buyers of fruit in the UK want unbruised bananas so very high standards are set

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The bananas are taken to the local port by truck where they are inspected again

Photo: Steven Depolo

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Bananas that pass the test are packed in refrigerated ships (to prevent ripening)

Photo: Joseph

It takes between 6 and 12 days to get from Central America to the UK

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When the bananas arrive at their destination port they are first sent to ripening rooms and then to our shops

Photo: Nik Stanbridge

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Photo: Dave Crosby

Produced Locally, Sourced Globally

Salt from China

Calcium sulphate (a nutritional additive) from India

Palm oil from Southeast Asia

Whey from New Zealand

Milk and wheat from the EU

Sugar from the Caribbean

Cocoa from South America

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Photo: Port of San Diego

IMPACTS OF TRANSPORTING FOOD

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Impacts of Transportation

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Food’s Carbon Footprint

The greenhouse gas emissions produced by growing, rearing, farming, processing, transporting, storing, cooking and disposing of the food we eat.

Photo: Ron Mader

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Photo: Roberto Rizzato

Click here for greenhouse effect video

The greater the distance food has travelled, the greater the impact on the environment

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Photo: Britney Lindsay

Only a small percentage of food is transported by air but it produces approx. 20% of the world’s food transport carbon emissions

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Photo: Roel Hemkes

Rail and sea transport produce approx. 10% each of the world’s food transport emissions

Photo: John Turner

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Photo: highwaysengland

Road transport produces 60% of the world’s food transport carbon emissions

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Pollutants, such as the chemicals in traffic fumes, can quickly trigger asthma symptoms

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Health Implications

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REDUCING FOOD MILES

Photo: Phil Mclver

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Photo: Seacoast Eat Local

Buying local foods reduces food miles

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Photo: Betuli

There are now lots of farm shops and farmer’s markets that sell locally grown food

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Photo: Niklas Morberg

BUT buying local is not always best

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Buying British apples in June might not be any better than buying apples from New Zealand 12,000 miles away

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Photo: Edo Dijkgraaf

Imported tomatoes can have much lower carbon footprints than those grown locally out of season

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Photo: Nick Saltmarsh

Buy

British

and

seasonal

foods to reduce food miles

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Photo: Adam Raoof

Grow Your Own