Digital Project: Students study food waste at their school, conduct a survey, and create an infographic to share their findings and propose solutions.

Piktochart is the featured digital tool for Unit 4. Learn how to use Piktochart in our Tools for Digital Projectspage. Students may also use PowerPoint or a similar program to create infographics.

Let’s analyse about different solutions to food waste. Watch the following video and answer the following quetions:

1. Listen to the video and answer the following questions:

1.1 Who is talking?

1.2 What are they talking about?

2. Listen to the video again and analyse the information answering the following questions:

1. What can food producers do to avoid food loss?
2. What happen with those food not fit for human consumption?
3. What can individual consumers do to avoid food waste?
4. What can we do to turn the pyramid around?
5. Complete the ” Food Wastage footprint” using the following vocabulary: Each year 1____________all the food the world produce is 2__________________ not only does this mean an economic 3_________________ it means that all the 4________________used for growing processing 5_________________ transporting and 6_______________________that food were also wasted. Imagine 7___________ of the world´s agricultural land grow 8___________________that are wasted that equals the total land area of China, Mongolia and Kazahstan.

Tranlate the following vocabulary:

Food loss:

Wasted food:

Recycle leftovers:

Flow rate:

Household:

Garbage:

Invest:

Harvest:

Retailers:

Reduce landfills:

Watch the presentations on the Food Waste Solutions. Can you figure out which step of the food system wheel the solution is for?

Which solution would work best in your city?