Estimating food production in an urban landscape
Journal article
Authors | Grafius, Darren R., Edmondson, Jill L., Norton, Briony A., Clark, Rachel, Mears, Meghann, Leake, Jonathan R., Corstanje, Ron, Harris, Jim A. and Warren, Philip H. |
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Abstract | There is increasing interest in urban food production for reasons of food security, environmental sustainability, social and health benefits. In developed nations urban food growing is largely informal and localised, in gardens, allotments and public spaces, but we know little about the magnitude of this production. Here we couple own-grown crop yield data with garden and allotment areal surveys and urban fruit tree occurrence to provide one of the first estimates for current and potential food production in a UK urban setting. Current production is estimated to be sufficient to supply the urban population with fruit and vegetables for about 30 days per year, while the most optimistic model results suggest that existing land cultivated for food could supply over half of the annual demand. Our findings provide a baseline for current production whilst highlighting the potential for change under the scaling up of cultivation on existing land. |
Keywords | Multidisciplinary; urban food production, food security, environmental sustainability |
Year | 2020 |
Journal | Scientific Reports |
Journal citation | 10 (1) |
Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC |
ISSN | 2045-2322 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62126-4 |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/624658 |
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
hdl:10545/624658 | |
Publication dates | 20 Mar 2020 |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 03 Apr 2020, 15:19 |
Accepted | 05 Mar 2020 |
Rights | Attribution 4.0 International |
Contributors | University of Sheffield and University of Derby |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
File | File Access Level Open |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9425y/estimating-food-production-in-an-urban-landscape
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