3.7 The food journey

1 What do you think the phrase ‘fi eld to fork’ means?

✓ Collaboration ✓ Communication ✓ Refl ection

2 What happens to food?

a Use the diagram to describe each stage of the journey of food.

b Add notes to the food journey diagram on the worksheet to explain each stage. c Look at the fl ow chart. Describe how and where food is lost along the way. On the farm 11% is lost. The farm might grow more food than its workers can harvest. It might be damaged, when picked. After harvest 8% is lost. Food might be lost because it can’t be stored safely. It might be damaged when it’s moved from the farm to a factory. During processing 1% is lost. Some fresh food is thrown away because it is poor quality. It may be At home or in In markets or stores 6% wasted if there restaurants 10% is is wasted. A store might are problems wasted. People might order too much food and with machines in buy more food than it could go bad before the factory. they need. Food can people have a chance to go bad before it’s used. buy it.

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d Add notes to the diagram to show how food is lost.

3 Look at this infographic and complete the tasks. Farm Factory

Shops Restaurants

Institutions

Homes Key

Value of wasted food

= $25 billion

a Use the key and image to explain how it is different from the diagram in Activity 2. b Add more details to your food journey diagram on the worksheet to show how food is wasted.

4 How could you explain this information to young children?

The children in Year 1 are learning about food waste. Their teacher would like your help to explain how food is wasted from fi eld to fork.

Your presentation will need to be clear, simple and fun. They would love it if you could use songs, stories or pictures. a Plan your performance. Use the pictures for ideas. Finish with an action that shows how to reduce food waste. b Practise your performance! Top tips c Watch the performances. How successful were they? • Keep it short and simple. Use the Top tips to refl ect • Make it understandable, on how successful your own clear and factual. performance was. • Engage with your audience!

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Talking point

How successful was your team in communicating your message about food waste?