Food-miles and the relative climate impacts of food choices in the United States.

By Christopher L. Weber, H. Matthews. Environmental Science and Technology, 2008

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Subfields: Automotive Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment

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Citations in the corpus

• An Ecological Economic Critique of the Use of Market Information in Life Cycle Assessment Research (2011, methodology): “…been undertaken—for example, the large-scale modeling of food systems in the European Union by Weidema and colleagues (2008), for projected global livestock production in 2050 (Pelletier and Tyedmers, 2010), and by researchers using input-output LCA models (e.g., see Weber and Matthews 2008).”
• The prospects of zero-packaging grocery stores to improve the social and environmental impacts of the food supply chain (2017, background): “Although generalisations should be 6 made with caution, seasonal and native foods usually have lower carbon foot 7 prints (Akkerman et al., 2010; Saunders and Barber, 2008; Sim et al., 2007; 8 Weber and Matthews, 2008; Wilson, 2007).”
• A review of recent multi-region input–output models used for consumption-based emission and resource accounting (2009, background): “For the imported portion of the footprint, Weber and Matthews (2008b) show uncertainty bounds representing a rest-of-world group modelled with German technology with PPP exchange rates (lower) and Chinese technology with MER exchange rates (upper) (see also the section on uncertainty further below).”
• Quality, safety and sustainability in food distribution: a review of quantitative operations management approaches and challenges (2010, background): “Benefits of local products in terms of food miles may be lost through a production and or storage stage with a higher environmental burden (Weber and Matthews 2008).”
• Introduction: critical perspectives on food sovereignty (2014, background): “…mouth is part of its climate impact, it is important to recognize that the nature of production typically has a much greater impact on emissions; or, to put it another way, ‘food miles’ are just one part of the much bigger environmental case against industrial agriculture (Weber and Matthews 2008).”
• The price of protein: Review of land use and carbon footprints from life cycle assessments of animal food products and their substitutes (2012, background): “Weber and Matthews calculated an average transportation distance of over 8000 km in the life cycle chain of food products (Weber and Matthews, 2008).”
• The Impacts of Dietary Change on Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Land Use, Water Use, and Health: A Systematic Review (2016, background): “the growing of crops and raising of livestock) is the primary driver of environmental impacts, as opposed to later stages such as transport and processing [92, 93].”
• Is Local Food More Environmentally Friendly? The GHG Emissions Impacts of Consuming Imported versus Domestically Produced Food (2014, background): “Weber and Matthews (2008) conclude that altering household diets would be a more effective strategy for reducing GHG emissions than localizing food supply chains.”
• Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the U.S. Food System (2015, background): “Cereals/carbohydrates comprise the greatest proportion of freight (14%), followed by red meat (10%), with nonalcoholic beverages, fats/sweets/ condiments, non–red meat proteins, and processed food each responsible for about 6%–8% (Weber and Matthews 2008).”
• Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment? (2014, background): “The FAO’s seminal Long Shadow report (FAO, 2006) and numerous LCA-inspired scientific and NGO publications have highlighted the heavy burden that livestock place on land, water, biodiversity e and their contribution to GHG emissions (Pelletier and Tyedmers, 2010; EC, 2006; Weber and Matthews, 2008; ”