Good Food & Wine, Bad Footprint
In response to concerns from consumers about the carbon footprint of fresh produce, the south African fruit and wine industry has launched a multimillion rand research scheme to establish how the industry’s carbon emissions compare to international competitors.
11 February 2009
AR2.8-million carbon footprint research scheme, jointly funded by the South African fruit and wine industry and the UK Department for International Development (DFID) will measure the carbon footprint of local fresh produce in a bid to achieve carbon neutral status.
The research comes on the back of a two-fold climate change crunch for agriculture: changes in temperature and rainfall are affecting traditional growing areas, especially in the Western Cape, and, withlarge amounts of produce being exported, the need for the sector to understand its contribution to greenhouse gas emissions has become critical.
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