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Reply to Matters Arising ‘Making food transport data matter’

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The Original Article was published on 15 December 2022

replying to: Tubiello et al. Nature Food [Matters Arising DOI] (2022).

We are glad that Tubiello and colleagues1 consider that our new estimates of the contribution of global food-miles to total food emissions represent an important contribution to the field and agree on the importance of developing special guidelines for the characterization of food systems emissions. Our work2 contributes to this by adopting an encompassing framework that quantifies the carbon footprint of the global food-miles, accounting for the entire food supply chain. In the following, we reply to comments of Tubiello et al.1 on scope differences, possible convergence of food-miles emissions, the significance of supply-chain assessments and clear communication of key definitions.

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  1. ISA, School of Physics A28, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Mengyu Li, Manfred Lenzen & Arunima Malik

  2. Discipline of Accounting, Sydney Business School, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

    Arunima Malik

  3. Charles Perkins Centre and School of Life and Environmental Sciences, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Li, M., Lenzen, M., Malik, A. et al. Reply to Matters Arising ‘Making food transport data matter’. Nat Food 3, 1008–1009 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-022-00639-z

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