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Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Food Miles

Food Miles
Food miles are a way of attempting to measure how far food has travelled before it reaches the consumer. It is a good way of looking at the environmental impact of foods and their ingredients. It includes getting foods to you, but also getting waste foods away from you, and to the landfill!

The Very Hungry Maggot: How larva farming can help reduce food waste

The Very Hungry Maggot: How larva farming can help reduce food waste
How are maggots like waves in an ocean? How are they like puppies? In this fascinating Macroscope video from Science Friday, The Very Hungry Maggot, we meet David Hu, a mechanical engineering professor who’s studying how black soldier fly larvae consume food… a lot of food: Up to twice their body mass in food per day.

Love Food Hate Waste: Solutions for reducing food waste

Love Food Hate Waste: Solutions for reducing food waste
This video from UK-based Love Food Hate Waste, directed by Wes West, is one in a very useful educational series about how to reduce food waste in your home

Can rotting vegetables make electricity?

Can rotting vegetables make electricity?
The 23-acre Bowenpally vegetable market in Hyderabad, India produces around 10 tonnes (22,000 pounds) of food waste every day. But the food is no longer going to waste. It’s being converted into electricity.

How Are Expiration Dates for Food Determined?

How Are Expiration Dates for Food Determined?
Have You Ever Wondered...
How are expiration dates for food determined?
Can you eat food past its expiration date?
How can people reduce food waste?

Understand Goal 2: Zero Hunger

Food waste is the world's dumbest problem

The Erase Hunger Pop-up

How Does Food Production and Consumption Contribute to Climate Change?

Why do we need to change our food system?

Kids Respond to Child Hunger

Solving World Hunger Is Just A Matter of Logistics

New Books In The Library

Potatoes on Rooftops by Hadley Dyer; Michael Martchenko (Illustrator)
From high school students to high-rise dwellers, people--including Michelle Obama--are discovering innovative ways to grow fresh, healthy, and delicious fruit and vegetables at home, in community gardens, and at school. This brisk, informative overview explains how farming in the city is not only fun, but also important for the planet.