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
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Journal:
- Science More from this journal
- 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
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:854765
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- Local pid:
- pubs:854765
- Source identifiers:
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854765
- Deposit date:
- 2018-06-03
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- Copyright holder:
- Poore and Nemecek
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- Copyright © 2018 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science.
- Notes:
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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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