Organic Food

Organic food

Presentation by Lars, Maike & Leen

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Structure

Lars' Lemon

• Advantages
• Future

• Survey

• Conclusion

• Definition
• Statistics
• Politics
• Health
• Disadvantages

Maike's Onions

What do you think is organic food ?

Definition

-Food from organic farming -From ecologically controlled cultivation -Not genetically modified -No chemical-synthetic pesticides, artificial fertilizers or sewage sludge.

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Statistics

• Largest buyer USA with 40.6 billion €
• Second Largest EU with 37.4 billion €

Largest in EU:

1. Germany with 10.9 billion €

• Sales in the EU have rissen by 79.8%
• Organic Farmland increased by 33.7%

Europians Opinion:

• A good Image
• Impact on life and climate

35.6 m ha

2.8 million

+55%

71.5 m ha

make Australia the leader in organic food farmland

organic food farmers since 2009

of organic Farmland in million hectar

organic food farmers

1.149.371

+2.9%

organic Farmland in million hectar since 2017

producers make India the leader in organic food farmers

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Changing politics

Vandana Shiva

Michael Pollan

Alice Waters

multi-award winning Indian scientist and activist

In the documentary Cowspiracy, he advocates a purely plant-based diet as the most sustainable in a global perspective

Alice Waters is particularly committed to using only food grown in the region

EU politics

• The Common Agricultural Policy launched in 1962
• Improve agricultural productivity
• Stable supply of affordable food
• Collaborate on food and farming policy-making
• Monitor how laws are applied, how effective they are, and coordinates amendments
• Funding states
• Supports its farmers and encourages sustainable and eco-friendly practices

International politics

• Introduce quality labels
• Organisations demand ecological sustainability
• Not enough effort
• Can not afford it

F2F strategy

1. have a neutral or positive environmental impact
2. help to mitigate climate change and adapt to its impacts
3. reverse the loss of biodiversity
4. ensure food security, nutrition and public health, making sure that everyone has access to sufficient, safe, nutritious, sustainable food
5. preserve affordability of food while generating fairer economic returns, fostering competitiveness of the EU supply sector and promoting fair trade

Health

More healthy fats

Fewer pesticides and heavy metals

No use of antibiotics or synthetic hormones

Disadvantages

Advantages

-Less soil pollution -Less water pollution -Reduction in the use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides -Animals are treated better in organic farming -Less need for antibiotics -Higher food quality -People may value their food more

-Higher food prices -Organic often means not entirely organic -Controls are necessary on a regular basis -Health risks if production chain is not optimized -Limited choice of products -Some claims regarding organic food are not proven yet -Production of organic food implies plenty of work -May not be suitable to feed billions of people

Future

- Increased number of people switching to organic food -Chances are numbers will grow more -$375,98 billion by 2025 -Millennials are the biggest group of organic buyers

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Do you think it is important ?

Will you buy more in the future ?

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Have your Opinions changed ?

Do you buy organic food regularly ?

A lot of work

better for animals

expensive

healthy

Our sources

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4503959-soil-not-oil#:~:text=With%20Soil%20Not%20Oil%2C%20Vandana,is%20both%20possible%20and%20necessary. https://www.theringer.com/2021/7/18/22582925/michael-pollan-on-changing-how-we-think-about-psychedelics https://www.slowfood.com/tag/alice-waters/ https://www.ipg-journal.de/ipg/autorinnen-und-autoren/autor/vandana-shiva/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Waters https://environmental-conscience.com/organic-food-pros-cons/ https://www.helpguide.org/articles/healthy-eating/organic-foods.htm https://www.britannica.com/topic/organic-food https://www.foragerproject.com/blog/choosing-organic-better-for-you-and-the-planet/ https://organicmattersblog.com/2020/07/20/food-is-political-in-2020-organic-food-is-worth-our-investment/amp/ https://salmanzafar.me/organic-food-market/ https://www.comparethemarket.com.au/health-insurance/features/is-organic-food-worth-it/ https://www.ethicalpets.co.uk/blog/2017/09/the-objectives-of-organic-2/ https://www.bioenergyconsult.com/organic-food/ https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/headlines/society/20180404STO00909/the-eu-s-organic-food-market-facts-and-rules-infographic https://european-union.europa.eu/priorities-and-actions/actions-topic/agriculture_en https://www.fibl.org/fileadmin/documents/shop/1150-organic-world-2021.pdf https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/umwelttipps-fuer-den-alltag/siegelkunde/bio-siegel-eu-deutschland https://time.com/4871915/health-benefits-organic-food/ https://environmental-conscience.com/organic-food-pros-cons/

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Thank you for your attention!

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