{"id":213530,"date":"2025-05-08T02:07:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/after-the-apocalypse-urban-and-near-urban-farming-may-be-enough-to-sustain-mid-size-cities"},"modified":"2025-05-08T02:07:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:07:48","slug":"after-the-apocalypse-urban-and-near-urban-farming-may-be-enough-to-sustain-mid-size-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/after-the-apocalypse-urban-and-near-urban-farming-may-be-enough-to-sustain-mid-size-cities","title":{"rendered":"After the apocalypse: Urban and near-urban farming may be enough to sustain mid-size cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/after-the-apocalypse-urban-and-near-urban-farming-may-be-enough-to-sustain-mid-size-cities.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Boyd of Adapt Research Ltd, New Zealand, and Nick Wilson of the University of Otago, New Zealand, present these findings in <a href=\"https:\/\/plos.io\/3YOmMz1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>PLOS One<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abrupt global catastrophes\u2014such as nuclear wars, extreme pandemics, or solar storms\u2014could severely hamper <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/global+trade\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">global trade<\/a>. Shortages of resources like <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/liquid+fuels\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">liquid fuels<\/a> could disrupt food production and transport, possibly leading to famine. Prior research has suggested that this impact could be mitigated by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/urban+agriculture\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">urban agriculture<\/a>, which includes such approaches as home, community, and rooftop gardens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. Matt Boyd of Adapt Research Ltd, New Zealand, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1497,12,1506],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-energy","category-existential-risks","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}