• Measure/see their collective efforts towards reducing food waste.
• By signing up to the platform, you can see what other schools are doing to get ideas.
Meet our Food Matters Superheroes It’s important that you register your classroom and log your activities to get the support of our Food Matters Action Kit Superheroes. They will support you throughout your jour- ney as you earn badges. The more activities you log, the more points you get towards one of the following badges. It is super simple to collect points, and you can create a
friendly rivalry with neighboring classes and schools. It’s super easy to collect points to unlock badges. All you have to do is upload a photo or description of your actions on your profile page after you’ve registered. There is a badge for all types of activities. There is the
Systems Thinker badge, the Influencer badge, the Innova- tor badge, the Rescuer badge, and the Grower-Chef badge. Once you’ve earned all five badges, you will unlock the cov- eted Food Waste Master badge! You can post your badge proudly to social media or you can print it out and stick it to your locker classroom wall.
Pin Avi the avocado & friends on Pinterest If you are as smitten with Avi the avocado and his friends as we are, we invite you to Pin the Food Matters Action Kit to your Pinterest board to share the action kit with your net- work of teachers and educators online.
Food for thought Everyone has an important role to play in reducing food waste, but the journey starts with education. At the CEC
we created the Food Matters Action Kit to help educators like you support kids and youth in making a difference. We hope the dozens of fun and impactful activities and tips help you to better equip young learners with the knowledge and tools they need to make changes at home and within their communities.
Antonia Andúgar is Project Lead for Green Growth at the Commission for Environmental Cooperation. She is in charge of projects on food loss and waste and on hazard- ous waste. Andúgar worked in Brussels for 14 years in in- ternational public and government affairs. During that time, she worked as a Senior Policy Advisor on Agriculture and Environment at the Copa-Cogeca Secretariat under the EU farmers and EU agri-cooperatives. She was also Director of VIA, a Farm Advisory Services Cluster in Québec, Canada. Currently, Andúgar is a member of the Board of the Ré- seau des Femmes en Environment (Women in Environment Network). She is also Secretary of the Board of UniAgro Canada. She holds a master’s degree in the European Union Law from the Royal Institute of European Studies in Spain and a master’s degree in Environmental Science and Management from the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Endnotes:
1. In 2011, the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO) presented in this report the estimate that around 1/3 of the world’s food was lost or wasted every year. This estimate has been used in the Com- mission for Environmental Cooperation’s Foundational Report Charac- terization and Management of Food Loss and Waste in North America, published in 2017.
2. 2011 Report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (See Endnote 1.)
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