Food Provenance and food miles

What is food provenance?

• Knowing where and how your food is produced, grown, caught or raised.

• The distance food travels from where it produced to where it is eaten.

• How it is transported from one country to another.

• Buying your food locally.

What is the meaning of the term 'food miles

• The carbon footprint of a product

• How many miles our food travels by road

• The distance our food travels from field to plate

• The distance we travel to buy the food

We buy our lamb from New Zealand: What is the best form of transport to use to get it to England.

• By Air

• By ship

• By lorry

• By train

Which are two ways in which you can reduce food miles?

• Eat seasonally and only shop on the weekend

• Buy locally and shop more frequently

• Choose a variety of foods from different countries and shop less frequently

• Buy locally and eat seasonally

Why is it important to read the label when considering food miles?

• It will tell you when it goes out of date

• It will give you a list of all the ingredients

• It will give you the nutritional value of the food

• It will tell you the origin of food product

Which 2 countries are the leading producers of rice?

• China and India

• Argentina and France

• China and Australia

• India and USA

What tool did the rice farmers use to harvest the rice?

• knife

• sickle

• plough

• tractor

Rice is grown in paddy fields but it starts out in a:

• school field

• plant pot

• nursery field

• valley