MEDI363 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Local Food, Bioterrorism, Food Chain

• School: UOW
• Department: Medical and Health Sciences
• Course: MEDI363
• Professor: Karen Charlton

Document Summary

Discuss how the different components of a national food system interact with each other/ other sectors. Describe/discuss strategies to assess the status of the local food system as it impacts on the nutritional health of a local community. Identify the ways that consumers" interests and demands influence the food production, food processing and food consumption subsystems. What is a food and nutrition system: activities which lead to the use of resources that produce, process and distribute food and the utilisation of that food by individuals to satisfy biological, physiological and social needs. Why is the food system important to phn: costs personal, economics, productivity, community cultural identity, cohesion, equity issues, safety issues food safety, bioterrorism, food system viability, public confidence, future sustainability, viability, advancement. Food production sub system: food produced by agricultural industry, threats facing australian agriculture, natural resource decline (salinity, acidity, nutrient loss, competition for water)