Curriculum Food Economics: From Kitchen to Global Market
Food Economics: From Kitchen to Global Market
The economics of what we eat - where your food money goes, restaurants and delivery apps, food waste, healthy diets, sugar taxes, school meals and global food trade.
- What Makes Up the Price of Your Food How the price you pay for food is divided between farmers, processors, transport, shops and restaurants, and why farmers often get a small share. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Running a Restaurant Why restaurants have thin profit margins and high failure rates, and how menu prices are set to cover food, labour and rent. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Food Waste How much food is wasted around the world, why it happens at different stages, and the economic costs and solutions. 📄 Read-aloud
- Food Delivery Apps How platforms like Swiggy, Zomato and Uber Eats connect restaurants, riders and customers, and the debates over commissions and rider pay. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Healthy Food Can Cost More Why a nutritious diet is out of reach for billions of people, why calories from processed foods are often cheaper, and what policies can help. 📄 Read-aloud
- Sugar Taxes: Do They Work? Why many countries tax sugary drinks, what happened in Mexico and the United Kingdom, and the debate over fairness and effectiveness. 📄 Read-aloud
- Food Economics: Checkpoint 1 Quick checkpoint - five questions on food prices, restaurants, food waste, delivery apps and healthy diets. 5 questions
- The Economics of Street Food How street food vendors provide affordable meals and livelihoods for millions, the challenges they face, and how laws try to protect them. 📄 Read-aloud
- School Meals: India's PM POSHAN How India's school meal programme, one of the largest in the world, affects nutrition, attendance and learning. 📄 Read-aloud
- Why Onion Prices Swing in India Why the price of onions in India can double or halve within months, how the government responds, and what the swings reveal about perishable food markets. 📄 Read-aloud
- The Economics of Meat and Its Alternatives Why global meat consumption rises with income, its environmental costs, and the economic prospects for plant-based and cultivated alternatives. 📄 Read-aloud
- Food Safety as a Public Good Why food safety cannot be left entirely to markets, how food regulators work, and the economic costs of foodborne illness. 📄 Read-aloud
- Who Feeds the World? Global Food Trade How food moves between countries, which nations are the biggest exporters and importers, and how export restrictions affect world prices. 📄 Read-aloud
- Millets: The Economics of an Old Grain Why millets lost ground to rice and wheat after the Green Revolution, why governments are promoting them again, and what it takes to change what people grow and eat. 📄 Read-aloud
- Food Processing: Adding Value to Farm Produce Why only a small share of India's fruits and vegetables are processed, how post-harvest losses waste food and income, and the policies to build a processing industry. 📄 Read-aloud