Quantifying the foodshed: a systematic review of urban food flow and local food self-sufficiency research

Cities are net consumers of food from local and global hinterlands. Urban foodshed analysis is a quantitative approach for examining links between urban consumers and rural agricultural production by mapping food flow networks or estimating the potential for local food self-sufficiency (LFS). Howeve...

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Main Authors: Kerstin Schreiber, Gordon M Hickey, Geneviève S Metson, Brian E Robinson, Graham K MacDonald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2021-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abad59