The relative importance of transport in determining an appropriate sustainability strategy for food sourcing

By Sarah Sim, M. Barry, R. Clift, S. Cowell. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Environmental Engineering, Food Science

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Decisions to reduce greenhouse gases from agriculture and product transport: LCA case study of organic and conventional wheat (2009, background): “[9], transportation can be an important contributor to life cycle GHG emissions of fruits and vegetables and cereal-based food products.”
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).”
Where are the best opportunities for reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the food system (including the food chain) (2011, background): “Regarding transport, one of the ﬁndings of life cycle analysis is that food transport makes, on average, a relatively minor contribution to overall food chain emissions (AEA Technology, 2005; Defra, 2008b; Edwards-Jones et al., 2008) although this will vary by food type (Sim et al., 2007).”
Three perspectives on sustainable food security: efficiency, demand restraint, food system transformation. What role for life cycle assessment? (2014, background): “(Williams et al., 2006; Edwards-Jones et al., 2008; Sim et al., 2007; Defra, 2008; FAO, 2010b; Nemecek et al., 2012) As recognition of the contribution that agriculturally induced land use change makes to food’s GHG emissions has grown, (Burney et al., 2010; FAO, 2006) so the need to raise…”
Interpretation of comparative LCAs: external normalization and a method of mutual differences (2017, result): “These results were also reproduced by Sim et al. (2007) in a food sourcing application where authors excluded marine aquatic ecotoxicity from normalized results due to masking of other aspects.”
Quality, safety and sustainability in food distribution: a review of quantitative operations management approaches and challenges (2010, background): “12 Smith (2008) stated, to extend responsibility for product quality into social and environmental performance of food supply chains.”