From Farm to School: Improving Small Farm
Viability and School Meals
SOURCE: “From Farm to School: Improving Small Farm Viability and School Meals ”, CSREES.
http://www.csrees.usda.gov/newsroom/impact/2008/nri/07291_farm_to_school.html
Carbon footprint labels to
capture amount of CO2 emitted
during manufacture, distribution
and disposal of product
SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/16/carbonfootprints.tesco
WHAT THE CARBON FOOTPRINT LABEL MEANS
SOURCE: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/16/carbonfootprints.tesco
SOURCE: Capital Press, November 30, 2007
Wal-Mart promotes sustainable agriculture
by promoting the concept of “food miles”
• Food in an average U.S. meal travels 1,500 miles before it reaches
your plate.
• Humans drink nearly 4 quarts of water per day, food requires 2,000
quarts of water to produce
• Reducing how many miles food travels saves money, reducing gas
emissions
SOURCE: Wal-Mart Sustainable Agriculture Fact Sheet - http://walmartfacts.com/_resources/LinksOfInterest/UpdateCounter.aspx?id=37
SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, December 1, 2007
SOURCE: Pirog, R. and Benjamin, A.2007. Checking the food odometer: Comparing food miles for local versus conventional produce sales to Iowa institutions. Leopold Center for
Sustainable Agriculture, July 2003. http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/nwl/2003/2003-2-leoletter/odometer.htm
SOURCE: Pirog, R. and Benjamin, A.2007. Checking the food odometer: Comparing food miles for local versus conventional produce sales to Iowa institutions. Leopold Center for
Sustainable Agriculture, July 2003. http://www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/nwl/2003/2003-2-leoletter/odometer.htm
Eating local more important than eating organic?
SOURCE: Murray, D. 2005. Oil and Food: A Rising Security Challenge. Earth Policy Institute report, May 9, 2005-4.
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2005/Update48_printable.htm
One-fifth goes to ag
production; “The other
four-fifths goes to moving,
processing, packaging,
selling and storing food
after it leaves the farm”
SOURCE: Murray, D. 2005. Oil and Food: A Rising Security Challenge. Earth Policy Institute report, May 9, 2005-4.
http://www.earth-policy.org/Updates/2005/Update48_printable.htm
“Food Inc. lifts the veil on our
nation’s food industry - exposing its
highly mechanized underbelly”
SOURCE: “Participant Media's and River Road Entertainment's Food, Inc. Opens 3rd Annual Culinary Cinema of the Berlin International Film Festival”, 2/10/09, Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS195960+10-Feb-2009+BW20090210
Organic or local?
• Willingness of consumer to pay for organic produce about same as for local produce.
• Frequency of purchases was different for organic and local produce.
• Consumers consider ''freshness'' and ''safe to eat'' as ''very important'' when purchasing
locally grown produce.
“When you buy fruits and vegetables, how often do
you buy locally grown (or organically grown) fresh
produce when it is available”’
Local
Always
14%
Most times
40%
Sometimes
38%
Seldom/Never
8%
Organic
6%
15%
38%
40%
SOURCE: Yue, C. and Tong, C. 2009. Organic or Local? Investigating Consumer Preference for Fresh Produce Using a
Choice Experiment with Real Economic Incentives. HortScience 44: 366-371.
SOURCE: http://www.barfblog.com/blog/141228/10/03/09/nosestretcher-alert-small-farms-produce-safest-food
A “new ruralism”
movement will take hold,
causing the urban-rural
divide to fade and
intermingling
neighborhoods with
working farms, bringing
people and their food
together.
SOURCE: Capital Press, September 30, 2010
http://www.capitalpress.com/content/TH-agribiz-future-w-photos
“Forget quaint notions of
sustainability, then, centered on
cheerful things like local foods and
compact fluorescent bulbs. If we don’t
solve our most pressing environmental
challenges, including soil erosion,
climate change, peak oil, and
increasing consumption of global
resources from a growing population,
history suggests we won’t survive.”
SOURCE: CSA News, February 2011
https://www.crops.org/publications/csa-news
SOURCE: International Food Information Council Foundation 2014 Food & Health Survey.
http://www.foodinsight.org/Newsletter/Detail.aspx?topic=Taking_the_Pulse_of_America_s_Diet_Findings_from_the_2014_IFIC_Foundation_Food_Health_Survey_&ut
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