{"chart":{"title":"Share of global food miles by transport method","subtitle":"Food miles are measured in tonne-kilometers, which is a unit of measure of freight transport which represents the transport of one tonne of goods over a distance of one kilometre. Shown is each transport method's share of global food miles.","citation":"Joseph Poore and Thomas Nemecek (2018).","originalChartUrl":"https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-food-miles-by-method","selection":["Air","Rail","Road","Water"]},"columns":{"Share of food miles (Poore & Nemecek, 2018)":{"titleShort":"Share of food miles by transport method","titleLong":"Share of food miles by transport method","unit":"","timespan":"","type":"Numeric","owidVariableId":109893,"citationShort":" – processed by Our World in Data","citationLong":" – processed by Our World in Data. “Share of food miles by transport method” [dataset]. Food miles by transport method (Poore & Nemecek, 2018) [original data].","fullMetadata":"https://api.ourworldindata.org/v1/indicators/109893.metadata.json"}},"dateDownloaded":"2025-07-09"}