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Farm costs and food miles: an assessment of the full cost of the UK weekly food basket
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In this paper, the authors assess a variety of scenarios for adoption of organic farming, localised food systems and sustainable transport to indicate the substantial potential to reduce environmental costs in the UK food system.About:
This article is published in Food Policy.The article was published on 2005-02-01. It has received 503 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Food miles & Food systems.read more
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Food Security: The Challenge of Feeding 9 Billion People
H Charles J Godfray,John Beddington,I. R. Crute,Lawrence Haddad,David Lawrence,James F. Muir,Jules Pretty,Sherman Robinson,Sandy M Thomas,Camilla Toulmin +9 more
TL;DR: A multifaceted and linked global strategy is needed to ensure sustainable and equitable food security, different components of which are explored here.
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Agricultural sustainability: concepts, principles and evidence
TL;DR: Agricultural sustainability suggests a focus on both genotype improvements through the full range of modern biological approaches and improved understanding of the benefits of ecological and agronomic management, manipulation and redesign.
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Conceptualizing food systems for global environmental change research
TL;DR: In this paper, a framework for studying the multiple interactions of broadly defined food systems with global environmental change and evaluating the major societal outcomes affected by these interactions: food security, ecosystem services and social welfare is presented.
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Sustainable intensification in African agriculture
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report that food outputs by sustainable intensification have been multiplicative and additive, by combining the use of new and improved varieties and new agronomic agroecological management (crop yields rose on average by 2.13-fold).
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Avoiding the Local Trap Scale and Food Systems in Planning Research
Branden Born,Mark Purcell +1 more
TL;DR: A strong current of food-systems research holds that local food systems are preferable to systems at larger scales as discussed by the authors, and many assume that eating local food is more ecologically sustainable and socially...
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