Citation
Leal Filho, W. (2010), "Editorial", International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Vol. 11 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijshe.2010.24911caa.001
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2010, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Editorial
Article Type: Editorial From: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Volume 11, Issue 3
Welcome to another issue of International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education where readers will find an interesting set of papers dealing with sustainability in higher education from Europe, North America and Asia. This editorial will introduce the International Institute for Environment and Development Report Fair Miles: Recharting the Food Miles Map (available at: www.iied.org/pubs/display.php?o=15516IIED).
Today’s food is well travelled. A pack of green beans in a northern supermarket may have journeyed 6,000 miles, or only 60 […] depending where they have been produced. But while food miles loom large in our carbon-aware times, transporting it counts for less than one might think. There is a far bigger picture. Food is more than a plateful of emissions. It is a social, political and economical issue that involves millions of small farmers in poor countries who export produce to the north. They have built lives and livelihoods around this trade. By buying what they grow, one can clock the so-called “fair miles”.
The pocketbook Fair Miles: Recharting the Food Miles Map discusses the realities of the produce trade between Africa and the UK (as an example of a European country), examining both sides of the equation in search of a diet that is ethically, as well as nutritionally, balanced. It may offer a useful material for lectures or group works on sustainable development at any university.
Enjoy your reading!
Walter Leal Filho