Canada: Research project explores how urban agriculture can reduce emissions and increase access to food
The $3.9-million TOsustain project brings together 15 researchers, including 11 from U of T, and partner organizations involved in food production, food distribution and land management
By Don Campbell
University of Toronto
September 19, 2024
Excerpt:
“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 and other questions, Isaac will lead a multifaceted project with a team of researchers and partners from the private and public sector called TOsustain (Toward Sustainable Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture for Net-zero Food Systems). It is being supported by a $3.9-million grant from the NSERC- and SSHRC-funded Sustainable Agriculture Research Initiative.
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 Greater Toronto. This includes smaller farms and large-scale growing operations, public lands, hydro corridors, community gardens, green roofs and unused green spaces.
The project will also look at measuring the amount of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions urban agricultural land can potentially trap and store and identifying farm management practices that can reduce GHG emissions. It will also include research that looks at regulations and policies that either constrain or promote urban agriculture, and develop a model to estimate GHG emissions from urban agriculture.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/canada-research-project-explores-how-urban-agriculture-can-reduce-emissions-and-increase-access-to-food/
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