Message to Euro-Americans: eat local food, buy global biofuels

The BBC has an interesting story on how Mr Peter Ndivo and Mr Samuel Mauthike, both small Kenyan farmers, are affected by the confusion around concepts such as 'carbon footprints', 'fair trade' or 'food miles'.

Euro-American consumers buy large quantities of fresh luxury products, such as orchids, baby corn, tiny tomatoes, palm hearts, mangos or carambola stars. Most of these exotic vegetables, fruits and flowers are grown by small farmers in the tropics, like Peter and Samuel. The products are flown to Euro-America on a daily basis, in jumbo jets. The smallholders depend on the market for their livelihoods - it feeds their families and allows them send their children to school.
read on at http://biopact.com/2007/02/message-to-euro-americans-eat-local.html

for a further explanation of the abve article on food miles read Saturday, June 09, 2007

Researchers: 'Food miles' too simplistic - 'green' needs 'red'
http://biopact.com/2007/06/researchers-food-miles-too-simplistic.html