Food Matters Action Kit
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC), an intergovernmental organization established by the governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States under the auspices of the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation, developed the Food Matters Action Kit to help educators and youth address the important issue of wasted food in the three countries. The toolkit is loaded with resources and hands-on activities to inspire youth of all ages to prevent food waste in their daily lives. Activities are designed for ages 5–25 and encourage youth to start making a difference right now to prevent food waste by addressing food waste from farm to fork.
This is an outstanding educational resource for a wide age range of students in formal or non-formal settings. The Kids’ Action Kit is designed for ages 5–13, and the Youth Action Kit for ages 14–25. The activities allow students to get hands-on with food waste to learn how to reduce it on a personal level, but also incorporate learning from a variety of viewpoints, and include traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) from indigenous communities across North America. This action kit is also interactive, incentivizing students to complete activities by awarding badges at specific milestones, encouraging individual inquiry and synthesis of complex concepts related to food waste through this reward system.
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Each year, the food we waste could feed millions of people and costs the North American economy billions of dollars. We also waste millions of tons of fertilizer each year on growing food never eaten, not to mention the millions of hectares of natural habitat lost to farmland dedicated to growing wasted food. Wasted food is a huge issue in the US and in many parts of the world. Use the resources below to educate and inspire students and communities to get involved in addressing the wasted food issue and help save our planet. View more resources in the Wasted Food PRO Picks collection >