What did you learn about dietary choices from using the footprint calculator? Now imagine that you could translate what you learned into an effective societal policy on food- what would it be? And how would this policy effect the need to alleviate world hunger?
925 million people on earth do not have enough to eat according to the FAO [Food and Agricultural Organization]. That's almost 1 in 7 inhabitants of our planet!
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Carbon Footprint
Does the food we eat affect our carbon footprint? If so, who?
I think you meant to say, if so how? Yes, there is a huge impact of food on the arbon footprint. You can use our calculator on this site (http://i2sea.org/calculate) to see how. Change the answers in your food fooptrint calculation to see, for example, what would happen if you replaced 3 meat meals a week with vegetarian ones.
Food impacts footprints both directly (Co2 emissions from farm machinery and transport and refrigeration of food) and indirectly (by methane releases from cows and chnges in land use).