Do Now:
How much of the food you eat do you think comes locally? If you think you eat largely locally, where does your food come from? If you think that most of your food is not locally sourced, why is that?
After watching the video, what are some benefits of urban agriculture over big farming?
Take a look at this website and pick the snapshot of your town. List one point from each category.
Production and Harvesting
Consumption
Processing
Distrubution
Community Needs
Resource Recovery
Research a local food organization (food bank, local farm, urban farm, local market, local kitchen, local restaurant) in your community and put the following below:
a) Name
b) Website/contact info
c) Short description of what they are and where they are located.
Use this interactive map put our by the food and agriculture organization of the united nations to answer the following questions.
a) What do you notice about the americas?
b) Pick one country that you are interested in from the map and record the percent of undernourishment (POU).
We will compare the POU of different countries that we list.
Exit ticket:
Read this article on using ramen to feed the world. List a pro and con to using ramen as a food source to do so.