Despite Recent Headlines, Urban Farming Is Not a Climate Villain

Photo caption: Market Garden youth interns tend to small-crop production at the Rivoli Bluffs Farm in St-Paul, Minnesota, Sept. 28, 2022. Photo credit: USDA photo by Christophe Paul. Article by Lisa Held. Civil Eats – April 3, 2024. Study: Nature.

At the end of January, multiple publications including Modern Farmer and Bloomberg ran eye-catching stories on the results of a research study published in Nature. Forbes declared that, “Urban Farming Has a Shockingly High Climate Cost,” a headline that was outright wrong in terms of the study’s findings. Earth.com led with a single, out-of-context data point: “Urban agriculture’s carbon footprint is 6x greater than normal farms.” […]

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