Food

The way our food is grown has a big impact on climate change – see fact sheet: Agriculture and Climate Change.  

‘Food Miles'
So much of our food travels great distances by road and air, from original destination to packing plants, on to distribution depots and finally to the supermarkets.

Airfreight of food has expanded significantly in the UK while the distance that food is transported by road increased by 50 per cent between 1978 and1999, and now accounts for between a third and 40 per cent of all UK road freight. Buying locally produced food direct from producers or at independent shops that have no centralised distribution systems, vastly reduces these ‘food miles’ and supports the local economy.