Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction

Food and Agriculture Organization

of the United Nations

FOOD IS LIFE – SAVE FOOD

Where does our FOOD come from?

Where does MILK come

from?

Where does PASTA come

from?

Where does our FOOD come from?

Where does MEAT come

from?

Where do TOMATO

come from?

Food products come from a FARM

From the farm, the food goes to a FACTORY

Wheat grains

Old wind mill and milling

stones

Wheat mill

Wheat flour

From the factory, the food goes to the MARKET or SHOP

Bread Pasta Wheat flour

Then your parents buy

it, and cook your

meal

From the farm, the food goes to a FACTORY

Milking a cow by hand

Milking a cow by

machine

Milk cooling tank Milk

factory

From the factory, the food goes to the MARKET or SHOP

Fresh milk

Yoghurt

Cheese

Butter

Then your parents

buy it, and cook your

meal

From the FARM, the food goes to a FACTORY

Pig abattoir

Cutting the meat

Making ham

From the factory, the food goes to the MARKET or SHOP

Ham Minced meat

Pork Salami

Then your parents

buy it, and cook your

meal

Sausage

From the FARM, the food goes to a FACTORY

Tomato harvest

Tomato canning factory

From the factory, the food goes to the MARKET or SHOP

Tomato puree

Peeled tomatoes

Fresh tomatoes

Then your parents buy it, and cook your meal

Peeled tomatoes In poor countries, there are a lot of problems.

Food gets spoiled and lost

before people can buy it or eat it.

If there is no water, then the crops die.

Drought in Africa

Irrigation in America

Farmers in poor countries don’t have enough money to water the crops.

Pests can eat or spoil the food on the farm.

Locusts

Tomato diseases

If there is no food for the animals, they die.

Farmers in poor countries don’t have enough money

to buy food for the animals.

Tomato diseases

Crops and animals can get sick and die.

There is not enough medicine for sick crops

and animals

Food can get spoilt before it gets to the factory.

Tomato diseases

Grain storage in Africa

Grain storage in Europe

Insects and rats eat the maize

Food can get spoilt before it gets to the factory.

Taking milk to the factory in Pakistan

Taking milk to the factory in Italy

Insects and rats eat the maize

If there are no factories, people have to do it themselves.

Maize pounding into flour in Africa

Making tomato paste in Africa

Insects and rats eat the maize

If the markets are not clean, food gets spoilt.

Vegetable market in India

Vegetable market in Italy

Insects and rats eat the maize

Insects and rats eat the maize

In rich countries, food is prepared well……

BUT: People throw

away good food !!!

People buy too much food for

the house.

People cook too much for diner, and they don’t keep the

left-overs for the next day.

Insects and rats eat the maize

People throw away food that they can’t

finish eating

Bakeries throw away good bread if it is

one day old

Insects and rats eat the maize

Insects and rats eat the maize

If supermarkets have too much vegetables, they throw them away

Farmers throw away good food products with funny shapes

People in rich countries throw away

good food, and in poor countries

children are hungry every day.

If people in rich countries throw away food, food gets more expensive everywhere.

Poor people cannot buy the food

anymore.

Global Initiative on Food Loss and Waste Reduction

Food and Agriculture Organization

of the United Nations

QUESTIONS AND

GOOD IDEAS FROM THE CLASS