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A few days ago I was listening to an interview on the radio, and the man said that Spain had a very inefficient food supply chain becuase the food would travel
by brozaman 7y ago
A few days ago I was listening to an interview on the radio, and the man said that Spain had a very inefficient food supply chain becuase the food would travel across provinces. He said that if the provinces would be able to self supply about 80-90% of their own food that would reduce massively the CO2 footprint. He gave some numbers which I don't remember, but they were quite massive.
Texas alone has a bigger surface than Spain, I wonder how much pollutes the transport of the food alone and how much could be avoided by producing food locally. The whole thing seems pretty wasteful...
- lotsofpulp 7y agoPeople would have to stop expecting to be able to eat all vegetables and fruits at all times. Going to be a hard sell, especially in the northern half of the US that doesn’t grow anything in winter.
- bmcooley 7y agoImproved local production doesn't have to reduce variety by necessity.
- TACIXAT 7y agoYea, I've been curious about that with vertical farming. It's way less cost efficient but I'm wondering which is more efficient carbon-wise. It might be worth eating the cost to reduce emissions.