Civil Eats (US) published an article on new research that shows that shifting to lower-meat diets would allow cities to source more—or all—of their food locally. Now, a new study from Tufts University provides the most comprehensive answers yet to an underlying, fundamental question: With the majority of people concentrated in cities, how possible is it to localize food production in the U.S.?
IFPRI Research Analyst Julie Kurtz, who spearheaded this research as a master’s student stated, “It depends—based on the type of food [produced on surrounding land], based on where you live, and based on the type of diet.” She added, ” that the city-by-city data, now publicly available, will allow officials and policymakers to evaluate exactly what is possible and what the barriers are in their specific regions. Republished in EHN Blog (Germany)