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Mapping the Lisbon potential foodshed in Ribatejo e Oeste: a suitability and yeld model for assessing the potential for localized food production
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Research on food planning has been recently proposed in North American and European
planning to account for how cities might change their food provision to respond to the rising
demands for a more sustainable and ethical food system. The purpose of this paper was to evaluate
the agro-ecological potential of the Lisbon city region, Ribatejo e Oeste, to increase its Regional Food
Self-Reliance (RFSR), through adopting demand restraint and food system relocalization approaches
to food system sustainability. Three new diet scenarios were considered: meat-based, plant-based
and strict vegetarian, defined in accordance with healthy dietary patterns. We used agro-climatic and
agro-edaphic agricultural suitability models to evaluate the agro-ecological potential for RFSR, and
proposed the use of Foodshed Landscape Plans within a landscape planning methodology. Results
showed the extent of local food production that could improve food self-reliance, with 72%, 76%,
84% of total food needs in the meat-based, plant-based, and strict vegetarian scenarios, respectively.
Thus, food system transformation by means of relocalization, is therefore ecologically feasible and
would ensure the sustainable use of the ecological basis of food security. Additionally, a dietary
transition would imply significant land sparing, which strengthens the demand restraint perspective
for a transition to food system sustainability
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territorial food systems food planning resilience relocalization foodsheds landscape planning GIS mapping
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Sustainability 2017, 9, 2003
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MDPI