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  • 标题:Feeding the cities and greenhouse gas emissions: a new economic geography approach
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  • 作者:De Cara, Stéphane ; Fournier, Anne ; Gaigné, Carl
  • 期刊名称:Journal of Agribusiness
  • 印刷版ISSN:0738-8950
  • 出版年度:2014
  • 出版社:Journal of Agribusiness
  • 摘要:’Buying local food’ is sometimes advocated as a means of reducing the ’carbon footprint’ of food products. This statement overlooks the trade-off between inter- and intra-regional food transportation. We investigate this issue by using an m-region, new economic geography model. The spatial distribution of food production within and between regions is endogenously determined. We exhibit cases where locating a significant share of the food production in the least-urbanized regions results in lower transport-related emissions than in configurations where all regions are self-sufficient. The welfare-maximizing allocation of food production does not exclude the possibility that some regions should be self-sufficient, provided their urban population sizes are neither too large nor too small.
  • 关键词:Agricultural location;Transport;Greenhouse gas emissions;Food miles;Local food
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