Food is a central and essential aspect of everyone???s life. It???s one of the biggest items of our budgets and the lower the income, the higher the proportion of income is spent on food. We are constantly being asked to look deeper into our shopping baskets, to learn more about the food we buy and where it came from. We are especially being asked to consider the impact of food choices on the environment, in relation to carbon emissions and ethics.
Whilst we often consider the energy required for food to arrive on the supermarket shelf (inherent in the ???food miles??? concept), we think less about our own contribution to the transport of food ??? where we go to find food and how we get there. This is a new research area which explores the types of data we would need to develop hypotheses about relationships between our physical environment and food choice.