Примери за food miles

• In addition to reducing food miles, stimulating local economies and providing farmers with alternative markets, these locally based systems can also be a model for agriculture at the rural-urban interface.

• Again, short food miles and local branding are essential.

• The environmental impact has been seen in so-called food miles.

• We can do a great deal to support local sourcing, not only through supporting our farmers in the rural economy but in reducing food miles.

• Will he and his ministerial colleagues give thought to specific measures that might encourage a reduction in food miles?

• Sustainability has to involve not simply aviation fuel taxation but measures to reduce food miles.

• I also hope that a greater emphasis on fresh foods will benefit local farmers, who can best supply freshness while keeping food miles low.

• More encouraging was the evidence of local interest from producers and consumers in farmers' markets, organic farming, reducing food miles and so on.

• From the environmental point of view, it leads to unnecessary food miles.

• The question of food miles is a serious one.

• However, the issues involved are complex and reducing food miles may not always be the most environmentally preferable solution in terms of reducing overall energy consumption.

• How can we do more to make sure that we reduce food miles and educate people to buy the food which is produced on their doorstep?

• Perhaps local partnerships could be established between urban consumption centres and rural producers, both to shorten food miles and to strengthen and shorten lines of food accountability.

• Through developing more lightweight bottles and reducing food miles, their carbon footprint is minimised.

• It must be recognized that food miles are unavoidable in this scenario unless the food is sourced from local producers.