Finnish workshop - FoodPrint_goodfood_Syväniemi.pdf

7/28/2019 Finnish workshop - FoodPrint_goodfood_Syvniemi.pdf

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Good Food

Healthier Children

- about School Mealsand Home Ecomics in

Finnish schools

Ombudsman for Foodculture Anni-Mari Syvniemi

Finnish Farmers Association


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Food does notsolve everything

but without food

you cant solve

anything.

Frede Bruner, Denmark


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The origin of food:

origin labelling,

Traceablity of the food chain

Quality Systems global, Eu, national

Small scale production of food, SMEs

Short Food Supply Chains

Food Services: Public - Private

Food Education

It is all about promoting

Finnish food and food culture!

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Ombudsman for Food

in Farmers Association?

6.4.2013foodprint.eu


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People are not connected to nature and

farming anymore!

6.4.2013

Connecting farmers and

consumers!

foodprint.eu

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Wrong facts, attitudes,

expectations

Lots of probaganda


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One School for All

Education System Chart

Free school meals (a warm meal)

For all pupils and students

Aged 7 18/19


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http://sre.kuvat.fi/kuvat/Titbits+from+Finland/School+Lunch.jpg


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School Catering Since 1948

Kuvat: Opetushallituksen arkisto

Free school meals have long

traditions in Finland

1948 was the starting point of free

school catering: Mainly soups,

porridges and thin porridge-type dishes

Average price for school food in Finland

is 2,62 /school day / pupil (2011)

More than 900 000 children and young people enjoy free school

meals at school on a daily basis.

There is a legislation and meals are part of our curriculum!


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The role of school meals

Lunch break = possibility for both

the students and the school staff

to refresh

Lunch provides pupils

with nutrition and energy

Helps pupils them maintain

a good working ability throughout

the school day.

School meals complete meals at home.

It is also promoting our food culture over generations!

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Finnish School Subjects

17 subjectsmother language and litterature, mathematics,

biology and geography, gymnastics are the biggest ones

http://www.oph.fi/english/education
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1. Family Life and communication

2. Nutrition and Food Culture

3. Consumer in

the changing society

4. Home and the environment

3 hours per week on the 7th grade

2 hours voluntarily on the 8th and 9th grade

The Goal:Healthy Youngsters sustainable lifestyle

Home Economics in Curriculum


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Basement is in our northern nature

- clean soil; clean water, lots of it

- everymans right: berries, mushrooms

- food from the wilderness

East and west connecting

today the global connection international kitchen

Pure, simple tastes

Food culture is the culture of homes! You have to modern food culture

you can not put it into a museum!

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About finnish food culture



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There is no culturewithout language

and cooking skills.Claude Lvi-Straussin (1966)

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