After the apocalypse: Urban and near-urban farming may be enough to sustain mid-size cities

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May 7, 2025, 2:00 pm183 ptsTrendingTop
A new study suggests that, in the case of global catastrophe, urban agriculture alone could sustain only about one fifth of the population of a temperate, median-sized city, but the whole city could be fed by also farming land within a short distance of the urban area.

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After the apocalypse: Urban and near-urban farming may be enough to sustain mid-size cities

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