Australia; International; QLD; TAS
Australian and international researchers have mapped the environmental 'footprint' of feeding people around the world, and have found that on land, just five countries (India, China, the United States, Brazil and Pakistan) contribute nearly half of food’s footprint. Australia ranked 12th in terms of our contribution to the food footprint with greenhouse gas emissions being a big contributor. Pigs, beef, rice and wheat crops were the highest-footprint foods overall, but there was also considerable variation between countries in how efficient they were at producing the same food. The authors suggest that this knowledge could help to steer us towards eating lower-impact foods so we can feed the almost eight billion people on earth more sustainably.
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