You want to reduce the carbon footprint of your food? Focus on what you eat, not whether your food is local

Date posted: 24 January 2020

Today a new blog from Our World in Data discusses how we need to look at what we eat rather than whether our food is local. 

There is rightly a growing awareness that our diet and food choices have a significant impact on our carbon 'footprint'. What can you do to really reduce the carbon footprint of your breakfast, lunches, and dinner?
'Eating local' is a recommendation you hear often - even from prominent sources, including the United Nations. While it might make sense intuitively - after all, transport does lead to emissions - it is one of the most misguided pieces of advice.

Eating locally would only have a significant impact if transport was responsible for a large share of food's final carbon footprint. For most foods, this is not the case.

GHG emissions from transportation make up a very small amount of the emissions from food and what you eat is far more important than where your food traveled from.

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