Feeding the future: Transforming our food system towards sustainability
Sustainable food is a new challenge for the international community to eradicate hunger, ensure food security, improve nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture, while fighting against inequalities and achieving respectful development of the planet and its resources.
However, in order to achieve the true transformation towards a sustainable food system, the involvement of all people and countries on the planet is necessary and for this, the role of education is fundamental. Food education in the broadest sense and that contributes to building societies that are critical and aware of food, nutrition and environmental problems: “from now to 2030, ensure that all students acquire the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to promote sustainable development, among other things through education for sustainable development and sustainable lifestyles, including responsible eating habits, the promotion of local food systems, the appreciation of gastronomic cultural diversity and the contribution of sustainable food to sustainable development”.
With the aim of training and raising the awareness of the population of Bilbao and Bizkaia on sustainable food and the SDGs, with particular attention to the young people of Bilbao, from BBK Kuna, along with UN Etxea, we offer visits for schoolchildren to the Kuna space focused on sustainable food.
Through these visits, participants will have the opportunity to learn more about the sustainable food projects that are being carried out in the different spaces of the building. Also, after learning about the space, the students will receive a dynamic workshop in which they will have the opportunity to delve deeper into sustainable food, local food systems, emotional health and nutrition, new forms of responsible consumption and technological innovations in the agri-food industry.
The workshop’s participatory methodology is based on the teaching unit “Sustainable Development Goals in the classroom – You are also a part of it!” developed by UN Etxea in collaboration with BBK Kuna, which works on sustainable food from an integral perspective that includes nutritional, environmental, social and economic aspects, addressing topics such as nutrition and intergenerational, responsible consumption and innovation in the agri-food sector. Thanks to the flexibility of the methodology, it is possible to adapt the workshops to the profile of the group or to the subject matter being worked on in the classroom.