Food Miles: Background and Marketing

Author(s): Hill H

Abstract

ATTRA—National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service is managed by the National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) and is funded under a grant from the United States Department of Agriculture’s Rural Business-Cooperative Service. Visit the NCAT Web site (www.ncat.org/agri. html) for more information on our sustainable agriculture projects. Funding for the development of this publication was provided by the USDA Risk Management Agency. 

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