Despite all the attention to food miles, emissions from food transport are not the biggest component of the sector's impact on climate change. (gracelinks.org)
She is now giving companies in the food supply chain specific tools that can reduce both food waste and the environmental impact of food transport. (sciencedaily.com)
It also lent itself much more directly than coal to being converted into food for people.The use of oil powered farming machines, oil and gas (an oil byproduct) based herbicides, insecticides, and fertilizers, and oil based long distance food transport, has allowed us to convert oil into food pretty directly. (kunstler.com)