So welcome back, everybody. Our final session for today is food. As with energy, this is a big, complex topic and one that's integral to our daily lives. This is something that impacts on businesses and supply chains on schools and young people on our health and well being. And it's an area with potential for individual community and strategic action. So our speakers today are going to cover a range of topics within this big, huge topic. So we're going to hear about foods impact on climate change, about food growing here in Stockport, bringing people together through food. And we're going to talk about food insecurity and food poverty. So our first speaker is Adrian Morley and from Sustainable Food Northwest. Adrian's a researcher and social scientist specialising in sustainable food systems and food policy. Okay I'm curious. Mhm. Okay, well, good afternoon, everybody. Apologies. I wasn't here for the first half of the session of the event today, I work for Manchester Met University. As Liz mentioned I research a fellow and sustainable food systems and I come from the issue from a social science perspective, but I work across disciplines. So I work with agricultural scientists, public health people, engineers, planners like I work. A lot of what I do is about bringing difference, um, disciplines together to look for new ways to solve this massive crisis that is food sustainability. And obviously the climate change is a big part of that. So I'm just going to briefly go through a bit about the impact of the food system on climate and impact of climate on the food system and talk a little bit about some of the issues as it would apply for us here in Stockport and also some of the opportunities that we can build towards a more sustainable and more carbon friendly food system. A clock is okay, so yeah, so just some basics then. As will be apparent to most people here, the food industry is a massive industry in itself. It is the the largest economic sector in the UK globally. It's estimated that the food industry accounts for around 10% of global GDP. So it's a massive part of what we do as a species, I guess, and it's also obviously essential to our daily lives. You know, we're the food's system, although there are many things, many problems with it. And we'll obviously look into those in this session today. It is also a remarkable thing. It provides food for most people, um, when they want it and how they want it, and it brings us into well. It provides lots of joy and positive experience and socialising in that company. So the food system, although there is a lot of things wrong with it, it is also should be seen, I think, as a positive thing. So the food industry itself is estimated to account for around 30% of global greenhouse gas emissions, so you can see alongside energy. And there's a bit of overlap between energy and greenhouse gas and food rather, but the food industry itself is estimated to account for around 30% the total of this within the food industry, the farming sector, all the parts connected to it are estimated to account for about 24%. So the majority of the food, the climate impact of the food system, comes down to how we grow crops and raise livestock, and then within that, the big factor which I should be most of you will be aware of is all of livestock and particularly ruminant livestock, as methane producers and the impact that has on the the climate. Uh, there's also one thing that is stated a lot, or there's a lot of interest, usually to the ground. Is this issue of food miles and the impact that has, and that's actually thought to be around where there was? There was a study recently that estimated around 6% of carbon emissions comes from food miles so that the distance. Well, that's the the importing and the moving of food around the globe, and these figures should be compared to air travel, for example, which represents around 3.5% of global emissions and obviously it tends to attract a lot of interest. But until very quite recently, food has tended to be overlooked as a climate change issue. But that that is saying recently, in the past five or six years, it's really come to the fore. So this slide I realize you might not be able to see the slides, the slide is from the National Food Strategy, which was an independent publication produced last year for government. Looking at the future of food and food and how, um, it needs to change essentially, and it covered many things. So this pie chart just outlines again, where the main carbon emissions derived, derived from within the food system and, as you can see there, not the majority of it. But almost half of it comes from agriculture. And then there's I don't if you can read them the biggest words there, but fertilisers. There's another 6% So agriculture is the main culprit. We should say, I guess. Then there's retail, catering and home consumption, which is relatively small. Piece of the the pie, in this case, if you beg me pardon, this graph that we see stick around. So this figure is quite an old figure from the World Resources Institute. But it's, I think it's quite illustrative in that it's It sets out where the main sources of climate emissions come from in the in the global economy. So on the left, you've got the different sectors. In the middle of the column is the end use of the activity that it where the emissions happen, and then on the right, you have the type of emission so you can see here and again. I think most people should be aware of this. That Carbon Dioxide is the main in terms of volume, particularly is the type of greenhouse gas. But when it comes to food, the main that the largest contributor and the largest area that people I'm interested in tackling is around methane emissions, as I mentioned from from livestock and also from other parts of agriculture, which we should be able to see. The agriculture is also a large producer of Nitrous Oxide, which is again another important gas, greenhouse gas and then another important one. I think that gets overlooked often at least in the kind of debate that I'm come across in. My field is around land use. So land uses farming, aggregate different forms of agricultural land use. Um, is a main, but it was a major source of carbon emissions, mainly through deforestation, but also how you till the land so carbon gets released from soils as it's used for agricultural purposes. Um, so I'm just gonna, As I said, this is an issue. I think that has come to the fore in in over recent years, which is the relationship between climate change and meat consumption typically at a global level. So meat is something that historically at least, people eat more of as they become more affluent. So is the world as on a global level. As countries develop, we find that the citizens of those countries wish to eat more meat, so therefore, that the impact of meat eating at a global level has increased consistently over time. And as I said before, ruminants, sheep and cows, our main source of climate change. I'm coming from from this, So I just briefly talk about what from the perspective of Stockport then. So obviously we don't produce that not many farmers in and around Stockport, the main issues for climate and food in Stockport is around consumption. So what we choose to eat and the impact that has further down the food chain and also in terms of the manufacturing sector that's in Stockport. There are something like 45 food businesses in and around Stockport, and you can see this figure is just for the Northwest. This was the the best data we've got. Unfortunately, it's a Northwest level, but you can see here that the size of the food industry in terms of numbers of businesses and employment. So again it's a significant sector. This slide up very briefly is just to show that the food is not just about the businesses. But it's also about this host of supporting organisations that compelled to tackle climate and help provide healthier food and tie in the different aspects of food. Okay, Uh huh, Yes. Exactly. Yeah, yeah, And that that's I've got community growers on there. But, you know, that's something that's been overlooked. So I just briefly and very quickly on this issue of linking climate with health. So again, it's probably doesn't need saying too much food is a major cause for public health problems in the UK and across the developed world and global impact. Wait, Yes, yes, yes, I'll tell you what. I'll just say by the podium. So this this figure here it comes from the food strategy again and what it sets out is the major sources the major types of public health issues that have made major causes of ill health and death by the different types and those coloured purple, is it? And so that was are all ones that are related to dietary health. So you can see here and again. It probably doesn't need stating that our poor diets are a major source of ill health and death fortunately in terms of what we do about it. This, um, diagram here just hopes, illustrates that there is a strong correlation between food that is sustainable food that is climate friendly and food that is healthy. So we have two pyramids here that there is the more traditional nutritional pyramid on the left food pyramid, and on the right, there's the upturned environmental pyramid. So essentially food of the lowest environmental impact is at the bottom of the environmental pyramid and obviously with the most nutritional impact is at the bottom, so you can see there's a strong correlation. For example, meat is tends to be bad in terms of public health and in terms of the environmental and sustainability impact, vegetables, fruit, certain types of carbohydrate tend to be good for good in both, so from some people that care about or want to do something about health and climate impact, there is a strong correlation here, which suggests that that's where we should be focusing on. This is something that was published by the Gorilla Foundation, which is an Italian organisation a few years ago, and they've been studies to sort against the more details about this and the precise relationship. But I think this really illustrates the opportunity and the problem there. That's probably my time isn't it? Apologies. Thank you