foodshed

plural foodsheds

1. The region that produces the food for a particular population.

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   Trends in Delimitation of Foodsheds. A market such as New York, situated on the seaboard and readily accessible to overseas transportation as well as to domestic rail transportation from all quarters of the continent, finds its foodshed affected by the protective tariff, sanitary and quarantine standards, and freight rates. The flow of produce in the future will depend not only upon the development of new kinds of transportation but upon the governmental policy in determining rates, schedules, and regulations. A survey of the recent trends in protective measures both sanitary and economic indicates that we may depend less and less upon overseas importations in the future and more and more upon domestic production. In so far as mileage theories of rate making prevail, particularly for the heavier and bulkier foodstuffs, definitely circumscribed foodsheds may result, as in the case of milk and main-crop potatoes. Where mileage is disregarded or specific values are high enough to make transportation charges a small percentage of the total cost, the foodshed is without geographical limitation, other than that set by considerations of production.

   1929, Walter Page Hedden, “Chapter II: Watersheds, milksheds, and foodsheds”, in How Great Cities are Fed, D.C. Heath, page 36

   In our effort to work toward realization of that vision, we have found the notion of the foodshed to be particularly useful in helping us to analyze the existing food system, to imagine the shapes an alternative might take, and to guide our actions. It is our purpose in this essay to elaborate and extend that concept and to share out initial understandings of its utility. The term "foodshed" was coined as early as 1929 (Hedden 1929), but we were introduced to it by an encounter with the article "Urban Foodsheds," written by Arthur Getz (1991). The idea of a foodshed immediately triggered a wide range […]

   1996, Jack Kloppenburg, John Hendrickson, G.W. Stevenson, “Coming in to the foodshed”, in Wes Jackson, William Vitek, editors, Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place, Yale University Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms: food bowl, breadbasket, granary