as become acute in U.
S .
cities, urban agriculture should become as high a priority for planners as transportation, housing, and em
Farming from the City Center to the Urban Fringe
Food Security for Planners
Anne Carter1
, Community Food Systems Lab,...
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as become acute in U.
S .
cities, urban agriculture should become as high a priority for planners as transportation, housing, and em
Farming from the City Center to the Urban Fringe
Food Security for Planners
Anne Carter1
, Community Food Systems Lab, Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Massachusetts – Amherst and Peter
Mann2
,World HungerYear,NY,NY.
The reasons for this are clear.
Eightypercentof theU.
S.
populationlives
in cities and the current food system requires vast resources for
distribution, processing and storing food.
Reducing the distance that
food travels can decrease the cost of food, the costs to the environment
due to oil, refrigeration and waste during travel and the dangers of bioterrorism.
Additionally, food insecurity in cities leads to other issues
such as diet-relatedhealthproblemsand poorschoolperformance.
Cityplanningcan reinforcethepotentialof urbanagricultureas a method
of preventingfood insecurity(a person’s level of hunger for one or
Less
