Food production and the environment
The food system has many impacts on the environment (including on biodiversity, soils, waterways and climate change) and limits to natural resources also pose challenges for the food system.
How the food system influences and depends on the environment
Food systems and natural resources
Key facts and infographics from the UN Environment Program about how the food system influences and depends on the environment
Options for keeping the food system within planetary limits
A summary article in the Conversation about how the food system has exceeded planetary boundaries and how it can be bought back within environmental limits
An overview from Harvard University Public Health about the impacts of the food system on the environment and what can be done about it
Climate change, food and farming in Australia
A report from the Climate Council about the impacts of climate change on food production in Australia
It takes a lot of water to feed us
An article in the Conversation about how much water it takes to feed Melbourne from researchers at the University of Melbourne
Dietary guidelines and sustainability
An overview from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations about sustainable diets
Videos
What is the environmental impact of feeding the world?
Teenagers explain the environmental impacts of food production in this video produced by the California Academy of Sciences
Water - the greatest threat to our food system?
Professor Charles Godfrey, from the University of Oxford, talks about the importance of water for food production
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