Oxford Institute for Energy Studies & oxford climate policy

Food Miles or Poverty Eradication?
The moral duty to eat African strawberries at Christmas
by Benito Müller
Director, Energy & Environment OIES, Managing Director OCP

In his latest Energy and Environment Comment, Dr Benito Müller looks at the recent controversy about discouraging consumers particularly in the UK from buying produce of least developed countries because of their 'food miles', i.e. the transport carbon emissions (especially from air freight), and the effect that such an environmental consumer boycott has on the efforts to eradicate poverty in these countries. He proposes a solution to the dilemma which offers a 'double development dividend', not only in terms of clean exports, but also in promoting much needed CDM activities in these poorest and most vulnerable countries.

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http://www.oxfordclimatepolicy.org/publications/mueller.html

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