Topic 4 - Environmental impacts of food systems

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Learning outcomes

• Be aware of the range of environmental impacts of food production
• Understand the range of impacts from different production systems

Activities

1. Work through the interactive package on biodiversity, land use, environmental impacts, rice/beef/wheat production (this cannot be downloaded. However, the videos and text are available to download from this webpage).

Interactive package

Videos can be accessed separately below:

Rice production

• Introduction
• Irrigate lowland rice
• Transplanted rice
• Rainfed upland rice
• Direct dry seedling rice

Beef production

• Introduction
• Life cycle assessment
• Impact on land use
• Greenhouse gas emissions
• Cultural importance of beef

Wheat production

• Introduction
• Challenges
• Other impacts

Additional material

• Climate smart food by Professor Dave Reay: This open access book asks just how climate-smart our food really is. It follows an average day's worth of food and drink to see where it comes from, how far it travels, and the carbon price we all pay for it.