County-level analysis of current local capacity of agriculture to meet household demand: a dietary requirements perspective

Autor: Peter Nixon, Anu Ramaswami
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Environmental Research Letters, Vol 17, Iss 4, p 044070 (2022)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1748-9326
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ac5208
Popis: With the goal of informing local food-action planning, this paper develops the first county-level database detailing agrifood consumption and production across 3114 counties in the United States. The database covers 12 070 food items that comprise the entire diet, mapping them to the production demand of 95 agrifood commodities. Agrifood demand is delineated further into fresh and processed components, along with characterization of animal feed, and compared with local food production to yield the current local agrifood capacity (CLC). CLC results are shown for individual agrifoods and for aggregated categories (e.g., on average, 0.03 for fruits and nuts, 0.24 for vegetables, 0.31 for non-meat animal products) across all US counties. CLC results for the entire diet find that a large proportion of US counties can be self-sufficient in individual agrifood commodities (ranging from
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