Top 5 Tips how to save food, money, and planets

In the meter in your lunch today, probably you not are thinking about where the grain is grown for making bread in your sandwich, or the amount of water used to grow tomatoes in your salad, or meat in the meat pie contributed to the increase in greenhouse gases.

It is also probably are not thinking about how changes in climate can affect the production of these foods in the future. But you may spare a thought for those who go hungry every day and how lucky you are to having access to nutritious food, fresh and tasty in his abdomen.

World Food Day is celebrated every year on October 16 to remind us that we need to ensure food security as an increasingly global climate change and population. It also induces us to think about the links among the poorest who do not have access to enough food, the need for more sustainable agricultural practices and the importance of minimizing food wastage.

More than a third of all food produced globally is lost or wasted. Australian households on their own, 4 million tons of food are wasted every year.

All that takes food water and energy to produce, transport, prepare and sell. All these resources are wasted when we throw food away. In fact, global food loss and waste generated 8% of the total emissions of greenhouse gases a year.

You can also save your pocket by not wasting food. The average Australian family shed more than $ 1000 of food each year - enough to power an average household for one month.

Change begins at home and that also begins in the classroom. That's why this year, we are working with our good friends Bayer teaches students about why it is important not to waste food and how to reduce food waste in schools.

On the occasion of World Food Day and the launch of our new educational resource for schools feed a hungry planet, our program sustainable future education is aimed at schools across the country to spread the word about saving food and how to go green with food.

Sustainable Futures teaches the science behind sustainability. Feeding a Hungry Planet is all about the science behind the resources involved in food production, how our changing of the contributing climate problems agriculture industry and how technology is alerting food production.

To reduce its contribution to food waste, here are our top 5 tips on how to save food at home:

• Install a compost bin in the backyard or a worm farm on the balcony so you can turn your food scraps in the kitchen nutritious food for your plants and garden
• Save peelings and cuts off its vegetable preparation and make a tasty action
• Plan your meals in advance or use a menu planner, so you only buy what you need from the shops or market
• Eat your leftovers for lunch - do not leave them in the refrigerator
• Keep foods properly to ensure that it stays fresh longer - See these tips for storing food

Sustainable future relies on a food waste solution program that combines the latest climate science with education for sustainability sponsored by Bayer.