LocalFoodDefinition

__Local Food __ Researchers at the Iowa State University-based Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture attempted to use a complicated formula to compare the impact of selling locally grown produce versus conventionally handled - and therefore well-traveled - produce. In a report entitled, //Checking the Food Odometer//, they found that conventional produce items traveled from eight to 92 times farther than the local produce to reach their points of sale, and that the average food mile - or "weighted average source distance" (WASD) - for locally grown produce to reach markets was 56 miles ([|www.leopold.iastate.edu/pubs/staff/files/food_travel072103.pdf]) . ||