Journal article
Reducing food’s environmental impacts through producers and consumers
- Abstract:
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Food’s environmental impacts are created by millions of diverse producers. To identify solutions that are effective under this heterogeneity, we consolidated data covering five environmental indicators; 38,700 farms; and 1600 processors, packaging types, and retailers. Impact can vary 50-fold among producers of the same product, creating substantial mitigation opportunities. However, mitigation is complicated by trade-offs, multiple ways for producers to achieve low impacts, and interactions ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
- Version:
- Accepted Manuscript
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- Publisher:
- American Association for the Advancement of Science Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Science Journal website
- Volume:
- 360
- Issue:
- 6392
- Pages:
- 987-992
- Publication date:
- 2018-06-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-04-17
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1095-9203
- ISSN:
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0036-8075
- Pubs id:
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pubs:854765
- URN:
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uri:b0b53649-5e93-4415-bf07-6b0b1227172f
- UUID:
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uuid:b0b53649-5e93-4415-bf07-6b0b1227172f
- Local pid:
- pubs:854765
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- Copyright holder:
- Poore and Nemecek
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Notes:
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Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from American Association for the Advancement of Science at: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaq0216
Note: an erratum exists for this article, originally published and available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw9908
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