main theme and topics

Sustainable Food for Us All 

How Can We Overcome the Food Problems Related to the Environmental Issues? 

By 2050, the world must feed 9 billion people. The demand for food will be 60% greater than it is today. The United Nations has set ending hunger, achieving food security and improved nutrition, and promoting sustainable agriculture as the second of its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030. However, we will not be able to continue eating in the same way because  of our food system’s limitations; malnutrition, food waste, limited natural resources, and so on. Such limitations clearly show that our food system must be transformed. Each step of the food  system – production, processing, distribution, consumption – needs to be adjusted to ensure healthier food to our growing population, and to reduce its environmental impact. But above all, it is necessary to keep in our mind that all the lives, including humans, animals, plants and all other creatures are closely related to climate crisis, as the quote by Sir David Attenborough “What we do now and in the next few years will profoundly affect the next few thousand years.” So, let us put our heads together at RSGF 2022 and share our ideas about “Sustainable Food for All – How Can We Overcome the Food Problems Related to the Environmental Issues?” For this forum, we are focusing on food problems, and we have set up 4 topics to help us better grasp the issue from different aspects. We have assigned each participant one of the 4 topics, shown below. These are used in students' posters and throughout discussions during the forum.

Discussion Questions

The following questions will be discussed during RSGF as well as Pre-Meetings. 

①What are the food problems related to the “Environment / Industry, Economy / Poverty / Health,  Well-being”?

②What are the causes of the problems?

③What are the effects of the problems?

④Are the current practices /actions related to sustainable food related to the “Environment /  Industry, Economy / Poverty / Health, Well-being”?

⑤How can SDGs help improve these issues?

⑥What have you been working on to solve the food problems related to the “Environment /  Industry, Economy / Poverty / Health, Well-being”? Projects?

⑦What changes are needed to solve the food problems in our societies at large? What projects can  we high school students make to implement in our own lives?