Food, Health and Climate Change
Understanding Common Terms Used in Disucssions about Climate Change and Agriculture This a glossary that provides definitions, sources and links for more information on terms used in climate change discussions. June 2009 [PDF]
- Food, Fuel and the Future: Consumer Perceptions of Local Food, Food Safety and Climate Change in the Context of Rising Prices Report summarizes findings of a web-based consumer marketing survey conducted by the Center's Marketing and Food Systems Initiative. September 2008 [PDF]
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Assessing fuel efficiency and CO2
emissions of two local food distribution options
in Iowa, This study looked at which method
was most energy efficient: farmer delivery or
customer pick-up of food products for an Iowa
Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)
enterprise. Conducted by the Leopold Center
Marketing and Food System Initiative, June 2008 [PDF]
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Critical Issues and Research Methods in Food
Life Cycle Assessment, Summary of Symposium
and description of the Low-Carbon Diet
Initiative, University of California-Davis,
October 8-10-, 2007, including a presentation by
Leopold Center Associate Director Rich Pirog, "Food
miles and fossil fuel use in food distribution" [PDF]
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The Low Carbon Diet: Reducing Energy Intensity and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Food System Using Life Cycle Assessment Approach, Overheads from a presentation, February 20, 2008, by Sonja Brodt with Gail Feenstra and Tom Tomich, University of California, Davis [PDF]
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Consumer perceptions of the safety, health and environmental impact of various scales and geographic origin of food supply chains, Leopold Center report showing results of a nationwide web-based survey of consumers, September 2007
- Agriculture
and Public
Health Gateway
The Johns
Hopkins
Bloomberg School
of Public Health
has developed a
gateway web site
that explores
the links
between
agriculture,
public health
and the
environment.
Go to web site
- Assessing
Energy Use and
Greenhouse Gas
Emissions in the
Food System
This is an
initiative at
the Agricultural
Sustainability
Institute at the
University of
California-Davis.
Leopold Center
Associate
Director Rich
Pirog worked
with this group
as members
looked at
research needs.
Web site
April 2008
- A Vision for
'Good Food' for
Iowa: Linking
Community-based
Food Systems to
Healthy Iowans
and Healthy
Communities [PDF]
This document
addresses the
nutrition and
public health
benefits of
community-based
(local/regional)
food systems. It
was written by
Angie Tagtow, a
W.K. Kellogg
Food & Society
Policy Fellow
and registered
dietitian. April
2008
- Greener Eggs and
Ham: The
Benefits of
Pasture-Raised
Swine, Poultry,
and Egg
Production,
an overview of
alternative pork
and chicken
production
systems,
prepared by the
Union of
Concerned
Scientists,
December 2007