How Does Place Affect Business Org and Their Environments
Place as a way of thinking about business organisations and their environments
What are food miles? - http://web.archive.org/web/20080307061635/http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/food_matters/foodmiles.shtml
Thanks in part to concerns about climate change, more people are stopping to consider the impact that everyday goods - including food - have on the environment. Food miles, the distance food travels from field to plate, is a way of indicating the environmental impact of the food we eat. Half the vegetables and 95 per cent of the fruit eaten in the UK comes from beyond our shores. Increasingly, it arrives by plane - and air travel gives off more CO2 than any other form of transport.
Agriculture and food account for nearly 30 per cent of goods trucked around Britain's roads and, according to a Government report in 2005, the resulting road congestion, accidents and pollution cost the country £9bn a year.
The end of the road for food miles?
”While the idea of food miles has become common currency, many other processes contribute to the carbon footprint of our food”
The term 'food miles' was coined in the 1990s by Dr Tim Lang, professor of food policy at London's City University. While the idea of food miles has become common currency, many other processes contribute to the carbon footprint of our food. Agriculture, processing, storage and the way we shop all have to be factored into the bigger carbon emissions picture.
Together these factors combine to make the food we eat responsible for a third of UK households' impact on climate change.
Air grievance
The most contentious food miles are clocked up by the fresh fruit and vegetables arriving by plane from across the globe. Reducing the carbon footprint of food is not as simple as choosing not to buy fresh fruit and vegetables flown in from Africa or South America, however.
Although air-freighted produce accounts for less than one per cent of total UK food miles, it is responsible for around 11 per cent of the
What are food miles? - http://web.archive.org/web/20080307061635/http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/food_matters/foodmiles.shtml
Thanks in part to concerns about climate change, more people are stopping to consider the impact that everyday goods - including food - have on the environment. Food miles, the distance food travels from field to plate, is a way of indicating the environmental impact of the food we eat. Half the vegetables and 95 per cent of the fruit eaten in the UK comes from beyond our shores. Increasingly, it arrives by plane - and air travel gives off more CO2 than any other form of transport.
Agriculture and food account for nearly 30 per cent of goods trucked around Britain's roads and, according to a Government report in 2005, the resulting road congestion, accidents and pollution cost the country £9bn a year.
The end of the road for food miles?
”While the idea of food miles has become common currency, many other processes contribute to the carbon footprint of our food”
The term 'food miles' was coined in the 1990s by Dr Tim Lang, professor of food policy at London's City University. While the idea of food miles has become common currency, many other processes contribute to the carbon footprint of our food. Agriculture, processing, storage and the way we shop all have to be factored into the bigger carbon emissions picture.
Together these factors combine to make the food we eat responsible for a third of UK households' impact on climate change.
Air grievance
The most contentious food miles are clocked up by the fresh fruit and vegetables arriving by plane from across the globe. Reducing the carbon footprint of food is not as simple as choosing not to buy fresh fruit and vegetables flown in from Africa or South America, however.
Although air-freighted produce accounts for less than one per cent of total UK food miles, it is responsible for around 11 per cent of the