Food production affects the environmental compartments of soil, water, and air. For each of these compartments, the chemical composition, its relevance to food production, and the impacts and consequences of the current food system (= the entirety of the production, transport, manufacturing, retailing, consumption and waste of food) will be discussed.
Each environmental compartment, namely air, water, soil, will be characterized by its chemical composition and its function to the environment (including humans).
Further topics are
– Processes by which food production causes emissions harmful to each of the compartments. This entails among others the emission of direct and indirect greenhouse gases and the release of chemicals in the environment.
– Impact of climate change on food production
– Abiotic and biotic degradation of chemicals and persistence of chemicals
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