Biodiversity

[Hafeez058]

#BiodiversityIsFood. Protecting #food diversity is key to feeding a growing population. Yet, we’re losing these resources every day. Here's what YOU can do👉

🍏 eat local, seasonal #foods

🍠 promote diverse #ingredients

[Zest]

Hi Hafeez058

Welcome to the Healthy eating forum.

Zest

[Hafeez058 in reply to Zest]

Thank you.

[Elisabeth3]

Thanks for the post, it's inspirational.

Do you live in Nigeria?

I am not aware that the population is growing in Europe. But the contrary.

Maybe it's growing globally?

I know the title is biodiversity but may I add to the 'what we can do' list: waste less food and waste less in general.

An incredible amount of food lands in the rubbish bin, if it even gets to the customers at all, or thrown away earlier in the supply chain.

Also, as you suggest local/seasonal food, a great quantity of plastic, paper, even fuel, etc. needed (or not) for transporting and storing the food can be spared. This way we also protect the environment, and ought to make food resource cheaper and eventually better.

[Hafeez058 in reply to Elisabeth3]

Yes ma, am a Nigerian. Thanks for your suggestion.

[Elisabeth3 in reply to Hafeez058]

Okay, son.

Have you lived in the UK or other European, etc. country?

Do you study nutrition or economics in Niga? I can see you are aged 21.

[Hafeez058 in reply to Elisabeth3]

No ma, i have never live in UK. May be I will come to pursue masters degree. I am now a final year student of B. Sc nutrition and dietetics Bayero University Kano.

[Elisabeth3 in reply to Hafeez058]

Nice study.

If you want to come to the UK next academic year, you must have some firm plans and applications, already.

If you are willing to share them and it is more convenient to you, you can send me a private message. I am not sure how to do it but you can surely find it out.

What is the topic of your thesis? And your specialty/interest? Do you specialise in BSc, already or only in the MSc stage?

[Hafeez058 in reply to Elisabeth3]

Only in the MSc stage, i am thinking of specializing in public health nutrition, but ma what is your advice?

[Elisabeth3 in reply to Hafeez058]

My advice about what? About the speciality?

[Elisabeth3]

I am sorry, I don't understand what you are trying to say.

Is overpopulation is issue or is not an issue?

[benwl in reply to Elisabeth3]

The population issue is largely solving itself - as countries develop the rate of population growth drops dramatically. In most of western europe its already well below the replacement rate, and africa and asia not far behind.

I don't have a copy of the UN forecasts to hand but from what I recall the global population has almost reached maximum and will start to decline.

[Elisabeth3 in reply to benwl]

Thanks. Then there is no problem with overpopulation, is there?

But food supply can still be, and is a concern.

[benwl in reply to Elisabeth3]

It would be nice if the total was less, and there are all sorts of issues if everyone wants to eat the same animal based diet as eaten in western europe.

But I think the population trend is a rare piece of good news - we're not experiencing a mathusian style population explosion.

[Elisabeth3 in reply to benwl]

As far as I remember a statistic said that in Western Europe we throw away 10% of the food. If you have an exact figure, please share.

I could not believe my eyes when I first saw Tesco's slogan, 'love food, hate waste' as it seems such a big problem that they put it onto the food bags.

Also, the population tends to overeat.

There is a global imbalance.

[benwl in reply to Elisabeth3]

I don't disagree with any of that. I suspect food waste in Europe is higher than 10% but I don't have any numbers.

[Elisabeth3 in reply to benwl]

That is such a high number, isn't it? And that is despite all the campaign not to waste.

[Hafeez058 in reply to benwl]

No, the global population hasn't reached maximum, but rather it is increasing. As of UN says the global population will increases from 7.3 billion in 2015 to 8.3 billion by 2030.

You can refer to the link below for more details un.org/en/sections/issues-d...

[benwl in reply to Hafeez058]

It's still increasing but the rate of that increase is declining and if that tend continues the population total will start to decline.

[Hafeez058 in reply to benwl]

I get your point. Thanks sir

[benwl]

The population issue is largely solving itself - as countries develop the rate of population growth drops dramatically. In most of western europe its already well below the replacement rate, and africa and asia not far behind.

I don't have a copy of the UN forecasts to hand but from want I recall the global population has almost reached maximum and will start to decline.

[benwl]

I think we can believe the UN on population. Once we start going down the conspiracy theory route rational discussion becomes impossible as you have the latitude to cherry pick and ignore whatever you want.

[benwl]

There may not be a need to expand food production but that doesn't mean it's not going to happen.

If the current global population wishes to to eat a north american style meat centric diet the farming of animals for meat and associated crop production to feed these animals is going to increase. That's capitalism at work, and the planet is just colateral damage.

[andyswarbs]

Eating meat is the biggest contribution to reducing biodiversity imo