Understanding Food Mile: An Qualitative Study on the Concept of Food Mile

Food mile is an important topic for debate for developed nations who are against global food supply chain and for organizations who are working on sustainable and environmental issues. This article investigates related literature on the concept of food mile and tries to bring forth a different perspective to the issue in relation to the Indian subcontinent. It talks about the various arguments given by researchers from developed nations against food mile. The article is about how local farmers' gain can only come at the expense of consumers who will be forced to pay higher prices for similar food items or similar prices for lesser quality food items and how farmers from developing nations are deprived to make their economic condition better if international food trading is given a red signal. A focus group study was also conducted to understand the perception of Indian consumer about food mile concept. The results for this qualitative study was later analysed using Thematic Content Analysis.