Information Sources

• Farmscape Ecology Program - This report includes two large downloadable posters illustrating food miles issues and impacts in Wisconsin, USA.
• Eating oil - This report contains excerpts from Eating Oil, a comprehensive report on food transport issues in the UK.
• The load less traveled (pdf) - This report outlines the potential for "ecolabels" highlighting the relative greenhouse gas emissions associated with different food products. It includes sample graphics as well as background information and analysis.
• Local Food Works - A site dedicated to profiling and promoting local food consumption in the United States.
• Fighting Global Warming at the Farmer's Market (pdf) - Subtitled "The role of local food systems in reducing greenhouse gas emissions", this study published January 2004 by FoodShare and authored by Stephen Bentley provides a detailed analysis and application of "food miles" analysis in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
• Checking the food odometer (pdf)- Subtitled, "Comparing food miles for local versus conventional produce sales to Iowa institutions", this study by Rich Pirog and Andrew Benjamin of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture (July 2003) provides detailed a methodology for calculating food miles as well as sample calculations for Iowa, USA.
• Colorado State University Cooperative Extension - "Tomatoes from Mexico, lettuce from California, apples from New Zealand and raspberries from Guatemala: today's salad bar is well traveled. However, this hasn't always been the case. Over the past century, the way food is produced, distributed and marketed has changed greatly...." Learn more from food science and human nutrition specialist Pat Kendall.
• Food Initiatives Group - "Food is travelling further than ever before." The FIG works on food issues including food miles in Greater Nottingham, UK.