FNS 250- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 26 pages long!)

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Nutrition and Food
• Course: FNS 250
• Professor: Andrea Moraes

Document Summary

Fns250 class 1 intro to food systems. Food chain if something happens (extinction) to one species it will affect another. Food value chain: don"t use linear component anymore, more focus on relationships and how you can go back and forth, food systems starting with biological, ending with trash. Industrial: apples harvested, waxed, stored in low o2 facilities, packed, distributed supermarket, small scale, sell at farmers market, need climate controlled facility outside harvest season. Us food system: goal is efficiency producing more with less money, primarily industrial, has subsystems and is globalized, natural resource use, 51% land use, 16% energy use, 80% water use. Sustainable food system: health promoting, sustainability, resilient, may not control how future will be but want to be able to adapt, sometimes less efficient, ex doing the right thing may cost more, diverse, fair, economically balanced, transparent. Avoid judging: for dietary choices, food insecurity, obesity, farmer practices, etc, everyone has diff priorities, needs, history, stigma harms (psychological)