Feeding the cities and greenhouse gas emissions: a new economic geography approach
| dc.creator | De Cara, Stéphane | |
| dc.creator | Fournier, Anne | |
| dc.creator | Gaigné, Carl | |
| dc.date | 2017-04-01T13:52:26Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-09T08:19:09Z | |
| dc.description | ’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. | |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.22004/ag.econ.182678 | |
| dc.identifier | https://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182678/files/De_Cara-Feeding_the_cities_and_greenhouse_gas_emissions-464_a.pdf | |
| dc.identifier | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182678 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/597833 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
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| dc.source | http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/182678 | |
| dc.title | Feeding the cities and greenhouse gas emissions: a new economic geography approach | |
| dc.type | Text |