Canada: New $3.9M research study explores urban farming to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and boost food access
“By increasing people’s access to nutritious and affordable food, it can go a long way in addressing these social and economic challenges.”
By Don Campbell
University of Toronto
Nov 26, 2024
Excerpt:
“Urban areas have so much food-growing potential, but our knowledge about how, where and what kind of crops can be grown in and around cities is limited,” says Marney Isaac, a professor in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences and the Department of Global Development Studies at U of T Scarborough.
“We know even less about how well urban agriculture can capture and store carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas that is a major contributor to climate change.”
To help answer these questions, Isaac will lead a multifaceted project with a team of researchers and partners from the private and public sector thanks to a $3.9-million grant from the NSERC- and SSHRC-funded Sustainable Agriculture Research Initiative.
The project, called TOsustain (Toward Sustainable Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture for Net-zero Food Systems), is broken into five thematic areas.
The first task is to create an inventory of current and potential land for agriculture in urban and peri-urban (the land immediately surrounding urban areas) spaces across Toronto and the GTA. This includes smaller farms and large-scale growing operations in the GTA, public lands, powerline corridors, community gardens, green roofs and unused greenspaces.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-new-3-9m-research-study-explores-urban-farming-to-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions-and-boost-food-access/
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