This Ethical Food and Fairtrade Fortnight you can join in with our events online and in person.
Ethical Food and Fairtrade Fortnight (EFFF) is a fortnight of events helps to raise awareness of the sustainability impacts of food and what we can do as individuals and an institution to help people make better choices.
We often don’t realise that the environmental and social impacts of food production, transportation, packaging, and food wastage is also undermining our ability to survive as a species.
- Food accounts for over a quarter (26%) of global greenhouse gas emissions
- Half of the world’s habitable (ice- and desert-free) land is used for agriculture
- 70% of global freshwater withdrawals are used for agriculture
- Agriculture and aquaculture is listed as a threat for 24,000 of 28,000 species evaluated to be threatened with extinction on the IUCN Red List (data from University of Oxford)
EFFF provides students and staff with an opportunity to explore many key issues that can help us better protect not only the planet, but also our health and often save us some money too. Find out more with these great activities:
- Expert speakers from Slow Food, The Sustainable Restaurants Association, Fairtrade Foundation (tbc), Lea Greens and the university
- Join our talks about Slow Food, Fairtrade & Business, Carbon and Water Footprints, our Disposable Culture and Vegan diets
- Win a prize and bake a cake for the Great Greenwich Bake Off!
- Visit stalls at all campuses to find out about Fairtrade and Ethical Food at Greenwich
- Visit the Community Garden at Avery Hill.
All events are free to attend and are open for you to ask burning questions you may have on important food related issues.
These events support all UN SDGs.
