Food Miles and Food Pathways
- Where do your fresh fruits and vegetables come
from? Fin
d out the origins of 95 fruit
and vegetable items typicallysold in U.S.
supermarkets using this online tool developed by
the Leopold Center and the Center for
Transportation Research and Education, July 2008
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Calculating food miles for a multiple ingredient food product [PDF], Leopold Center report showing food miles for strawberry yogurt, March 2005
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Food miles and consumer perceptions of locally grown foods, presentation at the annual conference of the Society for Nutrition Education, July 2004
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Food Miles: A simple metaphor to contrast local and global food systems [PDF], article written for newsletter of the Hunger and Environmental Nutrition (HEN) Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association, Summer 2004
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Checking the food odometer: Comparing food miles for local versus conventional produce sales to Iowa institutions [PDF], Leopold Center report showing that locally grown produce traveled an average of 56 miles from farm to point of sale (compared to average of 1,494 miles), July 2003
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Food, fuel, and freeways: An Iowa perspective on how far food travels, fuel usage, and greenhouse gas emissions, Leopold Center paper that looks at possible advantages and environmental benefits of a regional and local food system compared to a conventional food system, June 2001
- Food Miles:
Background and
Marketing [PDF] This 12-page
publication of
ATTRA, the
National
Sustainable
Agriculture
Information
Service,
provides
background on
energy use in
agriculture, how
to calculate
food miles, and
has suggestions
for producers
and consumers
about how to
reduce their
carbon
footprint.
January 2008
- Follow That
French Fry: Food
Miles and
Roadway Damage [PDF] This is a policy
research paper
prepared for the
Texas Department
of
Transportation
by Gretchen
Stoeltje, a
researcher in
the Government
and Public
Affairs Division
of the Texas
DOT. March 2008
- What is a food
mile? Forecast Earth,
a weekly program
produced by The
Weather Channel,
explains the
science behind
food miles
(weighted
average source
distance) in a
segment that
aired beginning
March 17, 2008.
Listen to the
clip
- Canadian food
miles
A health
planner for the
Region of
Waterloo Public
Health
Department has
looked at the
distance
traveled by 58
common foods
before they
reach
supermarkets in
southwestern
Ontario, in his
report,
Food Miles:
Environmental
Implications of
Food Imports to
the Waterloo
Region [PDF],
November 2005