FOOD TRANSPORTATION AND PRODUCTION Market Research in
Turkey
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What products are local and what products are transported from
abroad? In our research, we found that we have a lot of
alternatives for a specific type of product. And most of the
products are local. Of course, the products have a great variety.
The location and socio-economical neighbourhood effect the product
choices. Moreover, familiarity with lifestyle and lower price are
the main reasons for preferring local brands. In high socio
economic region, they are lots of exported products, and high class
international brands.
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Local Products Bread Butter Milk Olive Oil Meats Fruits like
apple and oranges Vegatables like potatoes and tomatoes Water
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Exported Products Fruits especially bananas Vegatables like
carrots Coffee Cacao Mineral Water (well-known brands)
Biscuits
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Most travelled products Bananas from Ecuador The distance is
11,462 km. This graph is for only 1,000 km. The actual CO2 emission
rate is 0.55 kg. Production regionNorth America Product formfresh
Production emissions0.05 Transport emissions0.05 Waste
emissions0.00
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Most travelled products Coffee from Switzerland The distance to
Turkey is nearly 3,000 km. According to the same calculation the
avarage CO2 emission is 0.15 kg.
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Should we buy local products or imported ones and why? Mostly,
YES. Imported products damage the economy, the environment, and the
local producers. As an answer to this question, lets watch a video
together.
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Local vs. Imported
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What is the impact of transportation on the environment?
Transport activities have direct, and indirect effects to
environmental problems. In some cases, they may be a dominant
factor, while in others their role is marginal and difficult to
establish. Second, transport activities contribute at different
environmental problems, ranging from local (noise and CO emissions)
to global (climate change), not forgetting continental / national /
regional problems (smog and acid rain).
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Effects of Transportation to the Air Large scale diffusion of
pollutants High growth on a short term basis of the concentration
of pollutants because of local conditions (e.g. smog) Photochemical
reactions caused by ultraviolet rays, notably over ozone, sulfur
dioxide and nitrogen dioxide Climatic changes Acid rain Synergetic
and cumulative effects when pollutants are combined (e.g. smog and
greenhouse gases)
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Effects of Transportation to the Humans Odors Noise
Cardiovascular and respiratory problems Susceptibility to infection
Drops in life expectancy Injuries, incapacity, hospitalization,
death Damage to structures: loss of useful life, corrosion of metal
structures (bronze, steel, etc.) destruction of historical and
cultural monuments
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Is fair-trade important? Has it been provided? Fair trade is an
important issue that must be provided by each country. Fair trade
protects the rights of small producers. Because of the difficulty
to compete with the big and international producers or brands,
there must be some written or unwritten agreements for both small
producers and international companies. It is an arguable issue
whether fair trade agreements are being provided efficiently or
not.
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What imported products are fair trade? In Turkey, we have lots
of fertile lands for agriculture. Most of vegatables and fruits can
be classified as fair trade. For example, potatoes, oranges,
tomatoes, and etc. However, people prefer some well known brands
for some types of foods like coffee, cacao, chocolates,and
biscuits.
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How much food we throw away/waste and how we can change that
(statistical data) 214 billion Turkish liras = 71.3 billion Euros
is being wasted in each year. The economic dimension of wastes food
or energy in Turkey is very high.
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Wasted Products - Bread 123 million bread are being produced
every day. More than 7 millions bread are being wasted every day.
The total cost for that waste is 200 milion Euros for each
year.
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What can be done with 200 million Euros? 1000 avarage sized
schools 100 high capacity and high equipped hospitals 250,000
monthly income of an avarage worker 8000 Volvo V60 cars 400 Ferrari
1.5 Christiano Ronaldo !!!
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RESULTS Please be aware of the impacts of imported products to
our common environment! Try to use local products as much as you
can do! Please dont buy more things than you can eat. Dont do
shopping when you are hungry Wasting even only one bread has
terrible damages to the economy of each country. Read more and more
about recycling.
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RESULTS This project, SuSu World, has been enlighten us deeply,
and it will be a beginning in our lives to act for a better life by
applying all the actions that were made during our project
timeline. The world is ours, and we can live in a better
environment by using our intelligence capabilites even the
governers cant realize the importance.
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Thanks for all your attention Be Sustainable to Sustain the
World