Supported by Rockefeller, New Report Shows Resilient Cities Require Resilient Food Systems
Urban resilience planning for natural disasters must include efforts to protect and secure food systems for food-insecure populations, a report from the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City and the Rockefeller Foundation warns.
Based on an analyses of food systems in Los Angeles; Madison, Wisconsin; New Orleans; New York City; and Portland, Maine, the report, The Resilience of America's Urban Food Systems: Evidence From Five Cities (71 pages, PDF), found that key vulnerabilities in urban food systems include the location of processing plants, distribution centers, retail stores, and food banks as well as transportation routes that might be closed for extended periods of time...