Share of global food miles by transport method
Food miles are measured in tonne-kilometers, which is a unit of measure of freight transport which represents the transport of one tonne of goods over a distance of onekilometre. Shown is each transport method's share of global food miles.
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Charts
- Carbon opportunity costs per kilogram of food
- Environmental footprints of dairy and plant-based milks
- Eutrophying emissions per 100 grams of protein
- Eutrophying emissions per 1000 kilocalories
- Eutrophying emissions per kilogram of food product
- Food waste per capita
- Food: emissions from production and the supply chain
- Food: greenhouse gas emissions across the supply chain
- Freshwater use per kilogram of farmed seafood
- Freshwater withdrawals of foods per 1000 kilocalories
- Freshwater withdrawals per 100 grams of protein
- Freshwater withdrawals per kilogram of food product
- Global emissions from food by life-cycle stage
- Global food miles by transport method
- Greenhouse emissions per unit of food transported
- Greenhouse gas emissions from food systems
- Greenhouse gas emissions per 100 grams of protein
- Greenhouse gas emissions per 1000 kilocalories
- Greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of food product
- Greenhouse gas emissions per kilogram of seafood
- Land use of foods per 1000 kilocalories
- Land use per 100 grams of protein
- Land use per kilogram of farmed seafood
- Land use per kilogram of food product
- Nitrogen emissions per tonne of farmed seafood
- Phosphorous emissions per tonne of farmed seafood
- Scarcity-weighted water use of foods per 1000 kilocalories
- Scarcity-weighted water use per 100 grams of protein
- Scarcity-weighted water use per kilogram of food product
- Self-reported dietary choices of Brits by age
- Share of food lost in post-harvest processes
- Share of food lost in post-harvest processes by region
- Share of global greenhouse gas emissions from food
- Share of national greenhouse gas emissions that come from food
- Transport's share of global greenhouse gas emissions from food
- Vegans, vegetarians and meat-eaters: self-reported dietary choices in the UK