Reducing food's environmental impacts through producers and consumers

Poore, J. & Nemecek, T. Science, 2018 DOI: 10.1126/science.aaq0216

A meta-analysis covering about 38,700 farms in 119 countries. The largest dataset comparing the environmental footprint of foods; the source of the finding that meat and dairy provide 18% of calories while using 83% of farmland.

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