What Is the Human Impact of the Food We Eat?
What is the human cost of our food? Learn how Social Life Cycle Assessment reveals hidden impacts like fair pay, labour rights and community wellbeing.
We often think about the environmental impact of what we eat, but what about the human impact?
Ben Purvis from our Sustainability Assessment Team explains how Social Life Cycle Assessment (Social LCA) can help highlight the often-overlooked human impacts in our food systems, such as; fair wages and ethical labour, community resilience and cultural heritage protection.
Ben, Alex Newman and Rachael Rothman from the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures, alongside Mauro Cruz Mercado, published an essay about assessing social and cultural sustainability in food systems in "Global Food Stories: Eating Cultures in Times of Transformation."
Credits
- Presenter: Ben Purvis (Research Associate at the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures)
- Video Production: Adam Nash (Marketing and Communications Officer at the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures)
- Additional Footage: Pixabay