Food Policy Establishment for my Country.

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Food Policy Establishment for my Country.
If we given the ability to develop organisation's policy, there are a few things to consider before starting. Here is a quick guide to what can be done in order to assist you, the following information may assist you in establishing your very own policy. Smoking, food, equality and diversity are but just a few policies out of the hundreds if not thousands that are currently existing. I chose to take the environmental route and formulate my own policy. Though environmental... it?s still a policy right? To start off, I will be defining what an environmental policy is. An environmental policy is a statement about an organisation's environmental position and values. The ISO 14001 standard states that an environmental policy is the organisation's overall environmental performance aim, purpose and direction formally expressed by top management. You may be wondering what the benefits are to establishing an environmental policy, well to start off, the intentions you have in your environmental policy can be advertised to the public so as to know of you aims and objectives. You place yourself relative to the industry that you are in and showcase yourself to other organisations and stakeholders. Most importantly, Current and potential clients can read the statement and are able to determine whether they would like to continue or start business with the organisation. So what should be included in your very own environmental policy? The ISO 14001 standard is probably the best reference standard for the development of an environmental policy. In summary, an environmental policy must be: appropriate to the you or organisation; include a commitment for continual improvement and prevention of pollution; include a commitment to comply to relevant legal and other requirements; and, provide the framework for setting and reviewing environmental objectives and targets. Also, consideration should be given to the reader's expectations. From a customer perspective they would like to clearly know: what the organisation does and how it does it (e.g. do they follow best practice and embrace cleaner production, if so how?); understand whether the organisation is greener or browner than similar organisations; understand whether the organisation presents a direct environmental risk to their operations; understand whether the organisation has any environmental programs to their reduce environmental impact and improve their environmental performance. What I would like to establish... The policy that I would like to establish for my country is that of zero food waste. So many of our supermarkets and restaurants discard food that is still edible. For instance, supermarkets have the tendency of throwing away fruits and vegetables that are weeks before its best-before date rather than giving them out to those in need. Also, this in the long run strains the environment where more nutrients has to be added into the soil to produce a substantial yield. Instead of throwing precious sustenance away, why not give it to those in need and eliminate food waste and malnutrition? If I could, I would set up a mandate whereby, all markets, restaurants, and manufacturing houses, etc follow up on this policy. In the long run, our food industry would be more efficient and not just economically, but environmentally as well. Reference list Environmental Management System. n/a. [Online]. Available: http://www.environmentalpolicy.com.au/. July, 2018. Accessed: October, 01, 2018. Images https://goo.gl/images/91Zoau https://goo.gl/images/Wiah5J https://goo.gl/images/eNzhS8 http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/wfd_contest/img/2017/large_IMG_7511.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holding_rice.jpg

Dormant user Rosa Domingos

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by Rosa Domingos | 01-10-2018 21:40 recommendations 0

If we given the ability to develop organisation's policy, there are a few things to consider before starting. Here is a quick guide to what can be done in order to assist you, the following information may assist you in establishing your very own policy. Smoking, food, equality and diversity are but just a few policies out of the hundreds if not thousands that are currently existing.

I chose to take the environmental route and formulate my own policy. Though environmental... it?s still a policy right? To start off, I will be defining what an environmental policy is.

An environmental policy is a statement about an organisation's environmental position and values. The ISO 14001 standard states that an environmental policy is the organisation's overall environmental performance aim, purpose and direction formally expressed by top management.

You may be wondering what the benefits are to establishing an environmental policy, well to start off, the intentions you have in your environmental policy can be advertised to the public so as to know of you aims and objectives. You place yourself relative to the industry that you are in and showcase yourself to other organisations and stakeholders. Most importantly, Current and potential clients can read the statement and are able to determine whether they would like to continue or start business with the organisation.

So what should be included in your very own environmental policy?

The ISO 14001 standard is probably the best reference standard for the development of an environmental policy. In summary, an environmental policy must be:

appropriate to the you or organisation;

include a commitment for continual improvement and prevention of pollution;

include a commitment to comply to relevant legal and other requirements; and,

provide the framework for setting and reviewing environmental objectives and targets.

food

Also, consideration should be given to the reader's expectations. From a customer perspective they would like to clearly know:

what the organisation does and how it does it (e.g. do they follow best practice and embrace cleaner production, if so how?);

understand whether the organisation is greener or browner than similar organisations;

understand whether the organisation presents a direct environmental risk to their operations;

understand whether the organisation has any environmental programs to their reduce environmental impact and improve their environmental performance.

food

What I would like to establish...

The policy that I would like to establish for my country is that of zero food waste. So many of our supermarkets and restaurants discard food that is still edible. For instance, supermarkets have the tendency of throwing away fruits and vegetables that are weeks before its best-before date rather than giving them out to those in need. Also, this in the long run strains the environment where more nutrients has to be added into the soil to produce a substantial yield. Instead of throwing precious sustenance away, why not give it to those in need and eliminate food waste and malnutrition? If I could, I would set up a mandate whereby, all markets, restaurants, and manufacturing houses, etc follow up on this policy. In the long run, our food industry would be more efficient and not just economically, but environmentally as well.

Reference list

Environmental Management System. n/a. [Online]. Available: http://www.environmentalpolicy.com.au/. July, 2018. Accessed: October, 01, 2018.

Images

https://goo.gl/images/91Zoau

https://goo.gl/images/Wiah5J

https://goo.gl/images/eNzhS8

http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/user_upload/wfd_contest/img/2017/large_IMG_7511.JPG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Holding_rice.jpg

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Dormant user Rosa Domingos

10 Comments

Horticulturist Susmita says :
Greetings Rosa
I hope you are doing well
Thank you so much for this report

Keep writing
Green cheers
Regards
Sus
Posted 15-03-2020 16:38

Rosa Domingos says :
Thank you Mugisha!
Posted 17-10-2018 15:57

Mugisha Derrick Emmanuel says :
AWESOME
Posted 16-10-2018 19:13

Rosa Domingos says :
:D
Posted 05-10-2018 20:38

Joon Ho Mentor says :
Thanks for reading my feedback carefully! :)
I will look forward to your next report, too!
Posted 05-10-2018 20:05

Rosa Domingos says :
Hi Joon!

I was unaware of the fact that we have 2.4 times the food to sustain the Earth. This is shocking to say the least because there are area around the world where people lose their lives to hunger and malnutrition.

I really do wish we have a global mandate to sort this out. The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals have started having a 'no poverty' goal. Hopefully a drastic change will erupt from this.

Thank you Joon!
Posted 05-10-2018 01:56

Joon Ho Mentor says :
Hello Rosa, I appreciate your report a lot since food security is one of the most important international problems in this world. If you do read 'The Bottom Billion' written by Paul Collier or any series of Jean Ziegler, you may find out how much we are wasting food thoughtlessly and porverty is severe than what we have thought and expected.
It is true that we have amount of food that more than 2.4 times the total population can eat but ironic fact is that more than 1 billion people are living with $ 1 or 2 for each day.
We have to think about this and implement inidividual ways of zero food waste habits.
Thanks for your report!
Posted 04-10-2018 22:51

Deepak Subedi says :
food waste is really a great problem for today's world, i hope every people can understand about how precious is each grain of rice.
Posted 02-10-2018 22:09

Rosa Domingos says :
Hi Gyeongrin!

You're absolutely right. The same practice was taught in my home and it is still practiced today. There should be no room for food waste. If one sector is in surplus, as you mentioned, them it should be distributed to other sectors that are deficient.

Thank you so much!
Posted 02-10-2018 17:13

Gyeongrin mentor says :
Hello Rosa!
'zero food waste' is admirable as it aims both economical and environmental improvement. When I was in middle school we had particular days that we weren't able to leave off foods in the tray, as we were having self food distribution, this was to teach us only to get much that we needed and not to throw away foods. We really showed some improvement in the utilization of food resources. Likewise if food is left in one part of the society, it would be better to reallocate the resource to somewhere it is in need rather than dumping it away!
Thanks for the report :)
Posted 02-10-2018 16:09

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