Global food-miles account for nearly 20% of total food-systems emissions

2022/06/20 by Mengyu Li, Nanfei Jia, Manfred Lenzen +4 · 291 citations
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paper · doi:10.1038/s43016-022-00531-w

published in Nature Food 3(6), 445-453 (Springer Science and Business Media LLC)

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