1. Food miles – activities to prompt discussion in the classroom Paul Beaumont / Kath Crawford

2. Food Miles ‘The distance our meals travel from farm to plate’ Should be food km!

3. Food Miles ‘Low’ food miles weekend Saturday Breakfast 155 food miles Cost: £1.25 Porridge (Norfolk via health food shop 80 miles) Porridge (Norfolk via health food shop 80 miles) Yoghurt (Long Hanborough 12 miles) honey (Sarsden via farmer’s market 25 miles) Yoghurt (Long Hanborough 12 miles) honey (Sarsden via farmer’s market 25 miles) Pain maison (Slough 20 miles) Pain maison (Slough 20 miles) Home-made damson jam (fruit from friend’s orchard 18 miles) Home-made damson jam (fruit from friend’s orchard 18 miles)

4. Food Miles ‘High’ food miles weekend Saturday Breakfast 30782 food miles Cost: £7.33 Greek yoghurt (1487 miles) Greek yoghurt (1487 miles) Blackberries (Mexico 5557 miles) Blackberries (Mexico 5557 miles) Blueberries (Chile 7262 miles) Blueberries (Chile 7262 miles) Orange juice (Caribbean, South America, Africa 16476 miles) Orange juice (Caribbean, South America, Africa 16476 miles) ‘Low’ food miles weekend Saturday Breakfast 155 food miles Cost: £1.25 Porridge (Norfolk via health food shop 80 miles) Porridge (Norfolk via health food shop 80 miles) Yoghurt (Long Hanborough 12 miles) honey (Sarsden via farmer’s market 25 miles) Yoghurt (Long Hanborough 12 miles) honey (Sarsden via farmer’s market 25 miles) Pain maison (Slough 20 miles) Pain maison (Slough 20 miles) Home-made damson jam (fruit from friend’s orchard 18 miles) Home-made damson jam (fruit from friend’s orchard 18 miles)

5. Food Miles Useful data is available to provide updates annually Food transport has significant and growing impacts Annual direct environmental, social and economic costs are some £9 000 000 000 Single indicator based on total food km is an inadequate indicator of sustainability

6. UK food vehicle km (2002) CO 2 emissions (2002)

7. Roses for Valentine’s Day - import from Kenya or Holland?

8. Diamond 9 Activity

9. Used for prioritising To encourage pupils to define which issues they consider to be important Could be used to trigger discussion in the classroom or in groups Source materials might include: – Newspaper articles – Radio / TV broadcasts – Podcasts [Taken, in part, from South Tyneside Primary Care Trust]

10. Advantages: Diamond 9 Activity Gives an opportunity to clarify one’s own priorities. Allows individuals to begin to negotiate with others to reach a compromise. Allows for snowballing from an individual to pairs  groups of six or more. (Could be adapted to Diamond 4 or 16!)

11. Disadvantages: Diamond 9 Activity Can take a long time! If consensus reached quickly then short! Sometimes difficult to prioritise middle items and to form diamond shape. Some groups cannot reach a consensus – does this matter?

12. Etc. Read the article Consider the statement which you have been given Create a ‘diamond 9’ by ranking the cards in order of importance Blank cards can be used! Diamond 9 Activity

13. Diamond 9 activity Create a diamond 9 to support the statement: ‘We should buy roses from Kenya’.

14. Diamond 9 activity Create a diamond 9 to support the statement: ‘We should not buy roses from Kenya’

15. Diamond 9 Activity Place your diamond 9 on the poster board Compare yours with those from other groups Extension activities: – Look at this from a grower’s perspective (both in Kenya and Holland) – same ranking? – Exotic/rare plants – should they be imported?