… miles". DEFRA, UK commissioned a study to assess whether a practical and reliable
indicator based on food miles can be developed, and whether this would be a valid indicator of …

… ➢ To identify and quantify the economic, environmental and social impacts of food miles …
➢ Recommend indicator is needed, but food miles alone is too simplistic … ➢ And variation …

… The purpose of this paper is to test the efficacy of the concept of food miles that has
proved so popular with the public as a means of assessing the sustainability of produce. …

… As a result, compared with domestic food mileage and emissions per capita (Fig. 5c),
international food-miles and emissions per capita vary markedly by region. High-income regions, …

… Producers in importing countries have an incentive to encourage the food miles movement
… is on food miles issues associated with the import of products from developing countries. As …

… and the transport cost estimated in relation to food miles; 2) the environmental impact of …
Is local a matter of food miles or food traditions? Italian Journal of Food Science, 29(3), DOI: …

… 1,500 miles, before being consumed. This publication addresses how food miles are calculated,
investigates how food miles … the energy intensiveness of our food transportation system. …

… develop and design the workshops where practitioners from different cities will discuss what
a successful sustainable food city looks like and the indicators … for sustainable development …

… There are two major groups of literature relating to food miles: firstly, literature concerned
solely with food miles itself (although academic literature on this is minimal), and secondly a …

The Validity of Food Miles as an Indicator of Sustainable Development: Final Report for
DEFRA — Heriot-Watt Research Portal … The Validity of Food Miles as an Indicator of …