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IELTS Essay: Much of the food people eat gets transported from farms thousands of miles aw...

Prompt

Much of the food people eat gets transported from farms thousands of miles away. Some believe it would be better for the environment and economy if people only ate food from local farmers. Would the advantages of this outweigh the disadvantages?

#food transportation#local sourcing#carbon footprint#supply chain#seasonality

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Band 7 → 9 — Band 7 covers both advantage and disadvantage categories, while Band 9 recognizes the nuance that transport is not always the dominant lifecycle factor and engages with geopolitical trade implications.

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Key concepts in this essay

food miles vs. lifecycle emissions
seasonal availability
economic development
agricultural efficiency
supply chain resilience

Pitfalls the model essay avoids

Oversimplifying transport emissions without considering total lifecycle (local seasonal vs. imported year-round storage)
Idealizing local farming without acknowledging scale and efficiency challenges
Ignoring economic disadvantages to developing nations that depend on food exports

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