The Role of Fossil Fuels in the U.S. Food System and the American Diet

Patrick Canning ; Sarah Rehkamp ; Arnold Waters , and Hamideh Etemadnia

United States Department of Agriculture

关键词: Carbon emissions tax;    Dietary Guidelines for Americans;    energy prices;    environmental input-output model;    food policy;    fossil fuels;    food prices;    greenhouse gases;    healthy diet;    sustainability;    U.S. food system;   

RP-ID  :  ERR-224

学科分类：农业科学（综合）

美国|英语

来源: United States Department of Agriculture Publications

【 摘 要 】

The food system accounts for a large share of fossil fuel consumption in the United States, and energy accounts for a substantial and highly variable share of food costs. To study these relationships, we use the most recent data available to integrate the material-flows accounting framework adopted by the United Nations Statistical Commission into the ERS Food Dollar accounts.Errata: On March 10, 2017, ERS corrected a few errors made in the calculation of data reported in Figure 14 (p. 32) and in the calories columns in Table 5 (p. 34). References to these data were updated in the text on pages 31-33 and p. 42. Also, a superscript on q on p. 89 was changed from a 1 to 0.