U.S. land capacity for feeding people could expand with dietary changes
Friday, July 22, 2016 - 10:51
in Biology & Nature
A new “food-print” model that measures the per-person land requirements of different diets suggests that, with dietary changes, the U.S. could feed significantly more people from existing agricultural land. Using ten different scenarios ranging from the average American diet to a purely vegan one, a team led by scientists from the Friedman School of Nutrition […]