@article{Revoredo-Giha:108775,
      recid = {108775},
      author = {Revoredo-Giha, Cesar and Leat, Philip M.K. and  Kupiec-Teahan, Beata and Lamprinopoulou-Kranis, Chrysa},
      title = {How Local and Seasonal is the Consumption of Soft Fruit in  Scotland?},
      address = {2011-04},
      number = {353-2016-18090},
      pages = {26},
      year = {2011},
      abstract = {The main implication of the food miles indicator is that  in order to protect the
environment consumers should  purchase food locally and seasonal. However,
something that  it is missing in all discussions is the evidence about how  bad or good -
in terms of locality and seasonality- is the  actual consumption of food. This is probably
due to the  fact that food consumption statistics are available as  aggregated annual data.
In this paper we analyse the  purchases of food, in particular the purchases of soft  fruits
in Scotland, which not only have marked production  seasonality but also are imported
from the rest of the UK  and from abroad. For the analysis we use the  Kantar
Worldpanel dataset for the period 2006 until 2009.  The results indicate that Scottish
soft fruit covers a  relatively small segment of the market and therefore eat  locally
would imply reduce significantly the consumption of  soft fruit, even during the
Scottish produce season. As  regards the consumption seasonality, the purchases of  soft
fruit, particularly strawberry, seem to be seasonal  despite the possibility of getting out-of-
season imported  soft fruit.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/108775},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.108775},
}