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= <font face="arial">Overview</font><br/> =

<font face="arial">Discussions on climate change have drawn attention to the issue of climate footprint of food. Following, an article is recommended which provides a </font><font face="arial"><font face="arial">so-called material flow analysis, determining the climate footprints for the cultivation, processing and transport of selected food.</font></font><br/><br/>

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= <font face="arial">Material Flow Analysis</font><br/> =

<font face="arial">Ulrike Eberle and Uwe R. Fritsche, [http://www.iinas.org/ International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS)], published a working paper on "[http://www.iinas.org/tl_files/iinas/downloads/food/2009_GHG_food.pdf Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the Production and Processing of Food]". The article provides a </font><font face="arial">quantitative analysis of the greenhouse gas emissions of selected food, and compares the supply of these products from conventional and organic farming.</font><br/><font face="arial">The method of material flow analysis is applied i.e. starting with food consumption and tracking all associated uses of energy, materials and transport through the different stages.</font><br/><br/>

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= <font face="arial">Results</font><br/> =

The results are that "the demand category of food leads annually to around 4.4 tons of GHG emissions per average household". This corresponds to 16% of GHG emissions arising from total private consumption. "The production of food (including freight transport) constitutes a share of 45% of this total; the rest is due to energy consumption for the storage and preparation of food as well as partial space heating (kitchen) and shopping trips".<ref name="IINAS: http://www.iinas.org/tl_files/iinas/downloads/food/2009_GHG_food.pdf, p. 4">IINAS: http://www.iinas.org/tl_files/iinas/downloads/food/2009_GHG_food.pdf, p. 4fckLR</ref><br/>

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= Further Information<br/> =

*[[Portal:Water and Energy for Food|Water and Energy for Food (WE4F) portal on energypedia]]
*Ulrike Eberle ,Uwe R. Fritsche, IINAS, 2009. [http://www.iinas.org/tl_files/iinas/downloads/food/2009_GHG_food.pdf Greenhouse-Gas Emissions from the Production and Processing of Food.]<br/>
*Fritsche U et al. 2011: BAU and SC Scenario Assumptions and the MFA Database;&nbsp;[http://iinas.org/tl_files/iinas/downloads/food/EUPOPP_2011_BAU_SC_Scenario_MFA_Database.pdf EUPOPP Deliverable D4.1 - Part 1 (iinas.org)][http://www.eupopp.net/docs/wp4.2_bau_sc_scenar.pdf .]<br/>
*OEKO (Öko-Institut) 2009: Global Emissions Model for Integrated Systems (GEMIS), Darmstadt, [http://www.gemis.de www.gemis.de]<br/>
*WWF UK: [http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/how_low_report_1.pdf How low can we go? An assessment of greenhouse gas emissions from the UK food system and the scope to reduce them by 2050]<br/>

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