Our current food consumption is a major burden on the environment and the climate. Factory farming is responsible for a significant proportion of greenhouse gas emissions, and agriculture affects the quality of soils, waters and biodiversity. Preserving these is essential to maintaining our ecosystem. For this reason, the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt (DBU) supports measures to reduce environmental impact, conserve resources, combat food waste and educate consumers about production processes and sustainable nutrition.

The DBU's support is aimed, among other things, at reducing the environmental impact at the various stages of the food value chain (e.g. processing, trade), including primary agricultural production. It says: "Another urgent problem is avoidable food losses, which occur to a considerable extent along the food value chain and especially during consumption. In reducing these losses, all those involved in the process, but especially consumers, have a major responsibility. Better knowledge is needed about the sustainable production, manufacture, marketing, storage and preparation of food. The competencies of all those involved in the process must be strengthened in the sense of sustainable nutrition and behavioral alternatives must be created. Product and process-related information about sustainability that is made accessible to consumers in an understandable form can make an important contribution to this."

More information is available here: https://www.dbu.de/foerderung/projektfoerderung/foerderthemen/nachhaltige-ernaehrung-und-nachhaltiger-umgang-mit-lebensmitteln/

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