Food System Outcomes Environment (Web – Feb 2024)

The environment figure lists food system outcomes for the Australian environment. Activities within the food system can generate negative environmental impacts, from food production, all the way to consumption but there are opportunities at each step of the food chain to make a difference.
• Poor health of Australian soils in 2021, due to ongoing clearing and unsustainable agricultural practices.
• 7.6 million tonnes of food is wasted each year.
• Australia’s food system produced 6.8 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions per person, per year in 2020.
• $2,500 is the cost of food wasted per household, per year.
• Eight species go extinct every 100 years due to our current diet.