Food sustainability 2

Sustainability ............................ with food because our relation to food is in ............................connection to our environment.

• starts/indirect

• starts/direct

• ends/direct

• ends/indirect

To ................ our relationship with nature, we must promote ..........................food and food traditions.

• destroy/global

• restore/global

• destroy/local

• restore/local

Sustainable food systems support and stimulate local economies and ..................................... the natural environment

• harm

• defend

............................ farming has a negative impact on the environment by polluting the air and water, ...........................fossil fuel and water resources, degrading soil quality, inducing erosion, .................................the loss of biodiversity and threatening our health.

• Industrial/ exhausting/accelerating

• local/ saving/accelerating

• Industrial/ saving/decelerating

• local/ saving/decelerating

The risk of food safety problems................................ because of the globalization of production and distribution networks which create more possibilities of ...................................... processing, handling or preparation.

• increases/ proper

• decreases/proper

• increases/ improper

• decreases/improper

............................. - scale, local farms attempt to contrast the environmental damage caused by industrial farming focusing on sustainable practices, such as ............................. use of pesticide, packaging and transport, composting, no-till agriculture.

• large/minimized

• small/maximized

• small/minimized

• large/maximized