Balancing food miles with farming practices
Environmental impact of growing foods far from where they're sold can be low enough to outweigh negative impact of transporting foods long distance, depending on farming practice efficiency, local conditions. With a potato, 45 percent of its energy demand until it's eaten, comes from transportation, and then, how it's cooked.
Conservation Magazine 2008-07-01
Categories: ARTS, IDEAS & TRENDS, Local & Sustainable
Index: A. Barber, and Rural Affairs, apple juice, Brazil, C. Foster, C. Saunders, C.L. Weber, carbon footprint, carbon miles, Carnegie Mellon University, Comparison of regional energy turnover with global food, Craig Meisner, DEFRA, Department for Environment, E. Schlich, Elizabeth Finkel, Environmental impacts of food production and consumption: A report to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, Environmental Science & Technology, Food, food miles, Food miles--Comparative energy/emissions performance of New Zealand's agriculture industry, Food-miles and the relative climate impacts of food choices in the United States, G. Taylor, Germany, greenhouse gas, H.S. Matthews, LCA Case Studies, Lincoln University, Lincoln University Research Report No. 285, Manchester Business School, Marks & Spencer, orange juice, Pamela Ronald, pesticide use, soil health, U. Fleissner