How will these resources help you?

Our current food supply system devastates the environment and the very soil that we need to produce it. Large amounts of land are exhausted to produce small amounts of food. Sheep and cattle farming is a prime example: grazing occupies 28 per cent of the world’s land, yet the products of meat and milk account for just 1 per cent of the world’s protein. Similarly, over three-quarters of soy produced is fed to farm animals. This cannot be sustainable, and while the UK’s food security is said to be high, we must ask for how long, with our food coming from ecologically damaging practices. These resources investigate the impacts, offer alternatives, and call for changes in our relationship with food that creates many of the world’s problems. Rapid changes in attitude, awareness and ultimately culture are needed. These resources will support teachers and students in their studies of Resource Management and The Living World, providing deeper context on why the solutions explored in the curriculum are needed.