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by Champions for Change

SDG 2. Launch Your Sustainable Food Choices Campaign to Empower Change. 🌍✨

Celebrating National Nutrition Month Amidst Fresh Vegetables and Culinary Preparations

Remember, change begins with awareness, and awareness starts with you. Through creativity, collaboration, and dedication, your campaign has the potential to inspire significant change, one sustainable choice at a time. Let’s make our food choices count for the betterment of our planet and future generations.

In a world where each decision can profoundly affect our environment, understanding the journey of our food from farm to plate is crucial. The choices we make about our food can lead to significant waste, impacting not just global food security but also the health of our planet. But here’s the brighter side: as young people, you wield the power to drive change and make a tangible difference. Initiating a Sustainable Food Choices Campaign is an excellent way to spread awareness about the environmental impacts of our food choices and encourage actions that contribute to a more sustainable and waste-free world.

The Issue at Hand: Tackling Food Waste 🗑️🌱

Before launching your campaign, it’s essential to understand the problem. Food waste is a critical global issue affecting every stage of the food value chain. From surplus produce left in the fields due to aesthetic standards, to food spoiling during inadequate storage and transport, to perfectly good items discarded in our homes due to misunderstood expiry dates—each stage contributes to the problem, increasing the environmental footprint of waste.

Your Mission: Champion Sustainable Food Choices 🥦🌟

Your campaign’s goal is to enlighten and motivate your peers, families, and communities to make more environmentally friendly food choices. By reducing food waste and opting for sustainable alternatives, we can all help lessen the demand on our planet’s resources.

Kickstarting Your Campaign 🚀

  1. Research and Educate Yourself: First, deepen your knowledge about sustainable food practices and the consequences of food waste. Knowledge is your most potent tool in persuading others to join the cause.
  2. Creative Visuals: Design captivating posters or digital graphics that highlight essential facts about food waste and its environmental impacts. Use striking images and statistics to capture attention and convey your message effectively.
  3. Engaging Videos: Produce brief, engaging videos showcasing simple lifestyle changes to reduce food waste. From smart shopping tips to innovative recipes for leftovers, demonstrate that sustainable choices are both practical and beneficial.
  4. Digital Campaign: Leverage social media to widen your message’s reach. Start a hashtag like #ZeroWasteEats or #SustainableBites, share your visuals and videos, and encourage others to do the same. Social media is a potent tool for raising awareness and building community action.
  5. Interactive Workshops or Webinars: Host events, either physically or online, to discuss sustainable food choices, share tips on reducing food waste, and engage with your audience. Bringing people together for a common purpose can significantly amplify your campaign’s impact.
  6. Collaborate with Local Businesses and Schools: Work with local restaurants, supermarkets, and schools to promote sustainable practices. Encourage them to donate unsold food, offer discounts for using reusable containers, or educate students about food sustainability.
  7. Call to Action: Ensure every content piece includes a clear call to action. Urge people to make specific behavioural changes, support local and sustainable food producers, and spread the word about the campaign.

Why Your Campaign Matters 🌟

By starting a Sustainable Food Choices Campaign, you’re not just raising awareness; you’re part of a global movement towards a more sustainable and equitable food system. Your efforts can help reduce the environmental impact of food production and consumption, combat climate change, and move us closer to achieving Zero Hunger worldwide.

Remember, change begins with awareness, and awareness starts with you. Through creativity, collaboration, and dedication, your campaign has the potential to inspire significant change, one sustainable choice at a time. Let’s make our food choices count for the betterment of our planet and future generations. #FoodForThought #EcoWarriors #SustainableLiving

Learn more about SDG 2 Zero Hunger here 

by Lynne Strong

SDG 2: Striving Towards Zero Hunger – A Global Mission 🌍🍲

 

A Unified Effort 🤝

Achieving Zero Hunger requires global cooperation and individual commitment. By working together, we can ensure that everyone, everywhere, has access to the nutritious food they need to lead healthy, active lives. Let’s strive for a world without hunger. 🌍🍲

Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2 isn’t just about ending hunger; it’s a comprehensive mission to achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture. Here’s a closer look at this vital goal and how we can all contribute to its realisation. 🌾💪

Understanding SDG 2 🎯

SDG 2 aims to end all forms of hunger and malnutrition by 2030, making sure all people have access to sufficient and nutritious food all year round. This involves promoting sustainable agricultural practices, supporting small-scale farmers, and allowing equal access to land, technology, and markets. 🌱🚜

The Challenge of Hunger 🥣

Despite abundant food production globally, millions still suffer from hunger, largely due to poverty, unequal distribution, and wasteful practices. The challenge is not just to produce more food, but to make it accessible and nutritious for everyone. 🌍🍽️

Key Focus Areas 🔍

  1. Sustainable Agriculture: Encouraging methods that increase productivity and are environmentally friendly. 🌾🐝
  2. Nutrition Improvement: Ensuring diets are nutritious, especially for children and vulnerable groups. 🍎👶
  3. Food Wastage Reduction: Minimising food waste at all stages, from production to consumption. 🗑️♻️
  4. Supporting Small-scale Farmers: Helping small farmers increase their yields and incomes. 🌿👩‍🌾

How Can We Contribute? 🤔

  1. Conscious Consumption: Make informed choices to reduce food wastage in daily life. 🛒🚮
  2. Support Local Produce: Buy from local farmers and markets to support your community’s economy. 🛍️🍒
  3. Advocate and Educate: Raise awareness about hunger issues and sustainable solutions. 📢📚
  4. Volunteer and Donate: Get involved with charities and organisations working to combat hunger. 🎁💗

For more information visit https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/hunger/

#ZeroHunger #SDG2 #FoodSecurity #SustainableAgriculture #FightHunger 🌾🥦💪🌏

by Lynne Strong

Meet the Kreative Koala Kids Tackling #ZeroHunger

2020 has been an exceptional year for Kreative Koala artworks and we applaud every single student and teacher who has put so much time and artistic energy into the project.

This is the first in a series of four stories where we introduce you to the changemakers in Australia primary schools 

The United Nations has created 17 Sustainable Development Goals and each school participating in Kreative Koalas is tasked with choosing one main goal to study. For the very first time several schools chose SDG 2: Zero Hunger so let’s look at their artworks as they do their bit to feed the world and realise the importance of school gardens.

Looking at clean water scored Medowie Christian College the title of Grand Champion Community Project for Change in 2019 and this year the talented cohort turned their attention to zero hunger, with their koala appropriately named The Hunger Hero.

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Inspired by their school garden and their participation in OzHarvest’s FEAST program, Medowie’s Hunger Hero is a palette of school-produced food including fruit trees, pumpkins, apples, chickens, corn stalks and root vegetables.

“It was excellent and surprising to see that, even though this garden was located in our main infants play area, NO ONE disrespected our garden. All students looked after it, made sure it was cared for and our plants grew healthy!”

As part of their project Medowie also collected over 150 tinned items, which they donated to Medowie Foodway, for distribution in the community to those finding it difficult to find enough to eat.

Visit their blog to follow their journey

Another school helping those less fortunate in their own community was Annagrove Public School who donated school-produced eggs and vegetables to Windsor Community Garden.

“We donate eggs and vegetables every fortnight to Windsor Community Kitchen and have decided that we will sponsor Windsor Community Kitchen and donate a portion of the money we raise on mufti days to help them pay their rent, as well as donate food.”

Annagrove’s koala Badayla (an aboriginal word for food) is also a pictorial exploration of the school vegetable garden and, as an added bonus, holds a container for the collection of food scraps, which are then fed to the school’s chickens.

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Annagrove also participated in FEAST and were surprised at how easy it was to incorporate sustainability, not just in terms of food, into their daily lives.

“We now find that we are more aware of the impact we are having on our environment with everything we do. Another surprising thing was how we had a positive impact on other people we knew (some of our parents were even asking us for ideas and tips). Our parents, friends and family all showed changes in their behaviour through seeing and hearing about what we were doing.”

Watch their learning journal

Willow, from St Mary’s North Public School, was the third koala representing zero hunger and she is a split personality koala. The beautiful blue side of Willow depicts a sustainable world where everyone has enough to eat, while her orange side depicts the opposite. The students ask us: “Which world would you choose?”

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The school garden also played an important role at St Mary’s giving students an appreciation for the hard work that goes into producing food. Their Kreative Koala ideas began in the garden and morphed as this crazy year of 2020 progressed through drought, fire and a pandemic.

“These changes also evoked fear in the students: what will happen to our world when we are in lockdown, how will we get food?  This is how the students directed their focus on Zero Hunger, which then lead to studying the SDG’s Life on the Land, Responsible Consumption and Production and Climate Action.”

#KreativeKoalaKids #GlobalGoals #SDGs #ZeroHunger

See all our Kreative Koalas Artworks

 

by Lynne Strong

Kreative Koala Kids using cookbooks and big ideas to achieve zero hunger

After their successful foray into the world of Kreative Koalas in 2019, when they were awarded Grand Champion Community Project for Change for raising awareness of healthy waterways, Medowie Christian School are this year tackling zero hunger.

United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 2: Zero Hunger is being investigated by students for the first time in 2020 and teacher Martha Atkins is excited to see changes in student thinking already.

 “One of our boy’s fathers works with AOG Medowie Foodway and he told us that Foodway supports 1500 families in Port Stephens, which is 10% of our population. This  was an eye-opening statistic for students. They thought zero hunger only applied to homeless people. They did not realise there were people and families who had a house and jobs who were experiencing difficult times. It has not been a hard job to get them to engage with this goal – they are excited about doing something to help.” Martha says

Whilst the students initially wanted to create a food bank within their school one of the things the students learnt from participating in KK 2019 was if you want to have community impact it’s important to meet the needs of the community and so began a journey of community consultation. The students created a survey which they shared with their family and friends.

“The feedback from the surveys showed us the community felt a larger priority was teaching our community about growing fruit and vegetables in a sustainable way and that has become our focus,” Martha says.

Complementing Kreative Koalas, Medowie Christian School is simultaneously participating in OzHarvest’s FEAST program, which aims to inspire “kids to eat healthy, waste less and be change-makers in their local community.” The final product of FEAST will be a school cookbook.

 “FEAST will tie in really well with Kreative Koalas and zero hunger.  We are a K-12 school so we have an agriculture teacher and our own school plot so we grow a lot of our own vegetables and will be using our own resources. We are looking at making our school garden a sustainable garden.” Martha says.

Another surprising outcome from Medowie’s community survey was the number of people who did not know about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

“60% of those surveyed didn’t know of, or couldn’t explain, the SDGs and when the kids saw that they thought ‘oh that’s easy – we can fix that one  The students are making a video about SDGs and are enthusiastic about sharing information on their blog. “Although we’ve chosen zero hunger, if we want to see real change, we need to make all the goals famous.” Martha says.

Congratulations Medowie Christian School on your wonderful start to the 2020 Kreative Koalas program – we look forward to watching your journey and your contribution towards Zero Hunger. AND raising awareness of the Sustainable Development Goals and inspiring others to join the movement to achieve them.

You can follow the students on their blog here 

Listen to Martha Atkins share the students journey with ABC Newcastle

#KreativeKoalaKids #GobalGoals #SDGs #bthechange #behaviourchange #sustainability