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## Purpose The purpose of this paper is to empirically identify key factors of UK food supply chains (SCs) that significantly contribute to CO~2~ emissions (CO2e) taking into account the life cycle assessment (LCA). The UK food supply chain includes imports from other countries. ## Design/methodology/approach This research develops a conceptual framework from extant literature. Secondary data obtained from ONS and FAOSTAT covering from 1990 to 2014 are analysed using Multilinear Regression (MLR) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA) to identify the factors relating to CO~2~ emissions significance, and the efficient contributions that are being made to their reduction in the UK food supply chains. ## Findings The study results suggest that Transportation and Sales/Distribution are the two key factors of CO~2~ emissions in UK food supply chains. This is confirmed by two multivariate methods, MLR and SFA. MLR results show that transportation increases UK CO~2~ emissions by 10 tonnes of CO~2~ emissions from one tonne of fruits and vegetables imports from overseas to the UK Sales and Distribution reduces the UK CO~2~ emissions by 1.3 tonnes of CO~2~ emissions due to improved, technolog

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Author

Emmanuel Ferguson Aikins; Usha Ramanathan

Publisher

Emerald

Published

2020

Language

EN

Field

Business, Management and Accounting (Social Sciences)