'Food miles' and fair trade - the challenge for consumers

摘要

What has long been obvious to anyone with a rounded knowledge of food production, distribution and trade - that crude calculation of so-called 'food miles' does not give a correct assessment of a food's carbon footprint - has now been publicly emphasised by a leading aid charity. In fact, as a new publication from Oxfam* makes very clear, buying local can often result in much higher carbon emissions than opting for the imported product.