ABOUT THE PROJECT by Antonietta Marchese

Description of the project

antonietta_marchese — 2024-02-24 20:54:31 UTC

Developing awareness of food, environment, and the problems generated and connected to food waste is probably the first step our society can take to counteract its negative effects. Combating food waste is a moral and environmental duty in an increasingly crowded world where food resources need to be managed with social consciousness and equity. Discarding food, in times when millions of people still suffer from hunger, is ethically intolerable and, above all, an environmental scar because it represents unnecessary and harmful consumption of natural resources.

Aims

antonietta_marchese — 2024-02-24 20:55:04 UTC

• Raise awareness among students about food and energy waste issues.
• Activate paths of civic engagement and active citizenship on "waste" to make students protagonists in generating a positive and constructive social change.
• Make students aware of the poverty conditions in which millions of people live.
• Develop the values of solidarity and welcoming of others.
• Understand the importance of help and collaboration towards the "needy" who are also close to us, often ignored.
• Raise awareness of conscious and sustainable energy consumption.
• Develop attitudes of respect and protection of the living environment, within the framework of sustainable development and environmental protection.
• Spread among students the culture of conscious action, aimed at preventing or strongly reducing the harmful consequences arising from a poor or distorted knowledge of issues related to energy consumption.
• Food waste: "Food loss" and "food waste"
• Implemented regulations and initiatives: regional, national, and European
• Agenda 2030, goal 12
• How much is wasted: the dimension of the phenomenon
• Waste along the supply chain: in the fields, in the industrial transformation process, in distribution, in the school cafeteria, and in household waste.
• The value of food: ethical, ecological, moral.
• The role of the school in the fight against food waste

Countries taking part in the project

antonietta_marchese — 2024-02-24 20:56:02 UTC

Italy

France

Needs

antonietta_marchese — 2024-03-10 17:56:55 UTC

Promoting health and well-being education through a healthy and proper diet, developing responsible behaviours against food waste, fostering solidarity and respect for natural resources. All of this starts from the students' daily personal experiences, aiming to develop awareness of correct lifestyles in young people.