Estimating food production in an urban landscape

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dc.contributor.authorGrafius, Darren R.
dc.contributor.authorEdmondson, Jill L.
dc.contributor.authorNorton, Briony A.
dc.contributor.authorClark, Rachel
dc.contributor.authorMears, Meghann
dc.contributor.authorLeake, Jonathan R.
dc.contributor.authorCorstanje, Ronald
dc.contributor.authorHarris, Jim A.
dc.contributor.authorWarren, Philip H.
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-14T13:27:42Z
dc.date.available2020-04-14T13:27:42Z
dc.date.issued2020-03-20
dc.description.abstractThere 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.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationGrafius DR, Edmondson JL, Norton BA, et al., (2020) Estimating food production in an urban landscape, Scientific Reports, Volume 10, Article number 5141en_UK
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-62126-4
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/15393
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherNature Publishing Groupen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.titleEstimating food production in an urban landscapeen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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