Nutrition environmental issues

• Climate change
• Reduced availability of fossil fuels
• Increased populations and depletion of water and nonrenewable resources

• Less land available to produce food -> less local food  available
• High cost associated with production, transportation and storage
• Waste and environmental impacts of food production, distribution and consumption

• Shift to large scale farming practices in last century has been detrimental to the environment and is not sustainable
• Current overconsumption of food unsustainable