The Future of Food Chains

CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD

DIETARY CHANGE: HEALTH AND SUSTAINABILITY

A WHOPPING 26% OF GLOBAL GREEN-HOUSE GAS EMISSIONS ARE ATTRIBUTABLE TO THE FOOD CHAIN 26%

EATING FOR 1.5 DEGREES

Our reliance on industrial farming particularly within a concentrated selection of foods is likely to accelerate climate change.

As crop failures and worsening conditions persist greater volumes of arable land are likely to be deployed for rice, wheat and maize, compounding the environmental impact of our food chains. Industrial food production and agriculture has a significant impact on our environment, due to three broad factors, the amount of fresh water deployed, the amount of land deployed, and the logistics of handling processing and moving food types. A whopping 26% of Global green-house gas emissions are attributable to the food chain (OurWorldinData,2022), in the UK this value represents 35% of total UK territorial emissions, 23% of which is attributable to waste (WRAP, 2023).

GHG EMISSIONS PER KILOGRAM (CO2 EQ. KG)

BEEF (BEEF HERD)

DARK CHOCOLATE

LAMB & MUTTON

BEEF (DAIRY HERD)

COFFEE

PRAWNS (FARMED)

CHEESE

FISH (FARMED)

PIG MEAT

POULTRY MEAT

0

20

40

60

80

100

120

Source: Our World in Data, 2022