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: Received: 10 December 2020 / Approved: 11 December 2020 / Online: 11 December 2020 (11:36:05 CET)
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Vicente-Vicente, J.L.; Sanz-Sanz, E.; Napoleone, C.; Moulery, M.; Piorr, A. Foodshed, Agricultural Diversification and Self-Sufficiency Assessment: Beyond the Isotropic Circle Foodshed – a Case-Study From Avignon (France). Preprints2020, 2020120277
Vicente-Vicente, J.L.; Sanz-Sanz, E.; Napoleone, C.; Moulery, M.; Piorr, A. Foodshed, Agricultural Diversification and Self-Sufficiency Assessment: Beyond the Isotropic Circle Foodshed – a Case-Study From Avignon (France). Preprints 2020, 2020120277
Vicente-Vicente, J.L.; Sanz-Sanz, E.; Napoleone, C.; Moulery, M.; Piorr, A. Foodshed, Agricultural Diversification and Self-Sufficiency Assessment: Beyond the Isotropic Circle Foodshed – a Case-Study From Avignon (France). Preprints2020, 2020120277
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Vicente-Vicente, J.L., Sanz-Sanz, E., Napoleone, C., Moulery, M., & Piorr, A. (2020). Foodshed, Agricultural Diversification and Self-Sufficiency Assessment: Beyond the Isotropic Circle Foodshed – a Case-Study From Avignon (France). Preprints. https://doi.org/
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Vicente-Vicente, J.L., Michel Moulery and Annette Piorr. 2020 "Foodshed, Agricultural Diversification and Self-Sufficiency Assessment: Beyond the Isotropic Circle Foodshed – a Case-Study From Avignon (France)" Preprints. https://doi.org/
Abstract
Regionalization of food systems for shortening supply chains and developing local agriculture to feed city-regions presents particular challenges for food planning and policy. Existing foodshed approaches enable to assess the theoretical capacity of food self-sufficiency of a specific region, but they struggle to consider the diversity of existing crops in a way that could be usable for informing decisions and support urban food strategies. Most studies are based on the definition of the area required to meet local consumption, obtaining a map represented as an isotropic circle around the city, without considering the site-specific pedoclimatic, geographical and socio-economic conditions, which are essential for the development of local food supply chains. In this study we propose a first stage to fill this gap by combining the Metropolitan Foodshed and Self-sufficiency Scenario (MFSS) model, which already considers regional yields and specific land use covers, with spatially explicit data on cropping pattern, soil and topography. We use European-wide available data and apply the methodology in the city-region of Avignon (France), initially considering a foodshed with a radius of 30 Km. Our results show that even though a theoretical high potential self-sufficiency could be achieved for the whole food commodities consumed (>80%), when considering the specific pedological conditions of the area, this could be suitable only for domestic plant-based products, whereas for animal products an expansion of the initial foodshed to a radius of 100Km was required to provide >70% of self-sufficiency. We conclude that it is necessary to shift the analysis from the size assessment to the commodity-group specific spatial configuration of the foodshed based on biophysical and socio-economic features, and discuss avenues for further researches enabling to develop a foodshed assessment as a complex of complementary pieces: the foodshed archipelago.
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology
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