ABSTRACT
The term “food miles” or “food kilometers” refers to the distance between the place where food is produced and the place where it is consumed. Food miles are measured in tonne-kilometers, representing the transport of one tonne of goods by a given transport mode (e.g., road, rail, air, sea, inland waterways, pipeline) over a distance of one kilometer. It is a proxy indicator for the environmental impact of transporting food from farm to fork. Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions result from the dependence on fossil fuels for much of this transportation.
