Making food transport data matter

Francesco N Tubiello¹, Monica Crippa², Kevin Karl^{3

4}, Efisio Solazzo², Silvia Cerilli³, Alessandro Flammini^{3

5}, Adrian Leip⁶

Affiliations

¹ Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. francesco.tubiello@fao.org.
² Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy.
³ Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
⁴ School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Center on Global Energy Policy, New York City, NY, USA.
⁵ Circular Economy and Environmental Protection Division, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.

Francesco N Tubiello et al. Nat Food. 2022 Dec.

. 2022 Dec;3(12):1005-1007.

doi: 10.1038/s43016-022-00638-0. Epub 2022 Dec 15.

Francesco N Tubiello¹, Monica Crippa², Kevin Karl^{3

4}, Efisio Solazzo², Silvia Cerilli³, Alessandro Flammini^{3

5}, Adrian Leip⁶

¹ Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy. francesco.tubiello@fao.org.
² Joint Research Centre, European Commission, Ispra, Italy.
³ Statistics Division, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy.
⁴ School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, Center on Global Energy Policy, New York City, NY, USA.
⁵ Circular Economy and Environmental Protection Division, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Vienna, Austria.
⁶ Directorate General for Research and Innovation, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.

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