Environmental Education for climate-conscious eating

Abstract

Industrial agriculture, which is the dominant food production model of the 21st century, is one of the causes of various health problems, as well as the emission of greenhouse gases, therefore, climate change.However, for the world, overcoming hunger and nutrition continue to be a challenge; critical and transformative environmental education in the face of climate change is more necessary than ever, among other things aimed at new ways of feeding the population. Achieving conscious citizenship requires an education where teacher training is fundamental. A documentary review was carried out based on reflections on the impacts of food and agriculture on the climate with participants of an EA and climate emergency course at UNICENTRO, Guarapuava, Brazil. As a result, ten principles are proposed that allow building food sovereignty with climate awareness to contribute to mitigation and adaptation through individual and collective action. The principles consider the origin of food, the distances between origin and consumption, processing and the production model.