Food flows between counties in the United States from 2007 to 2017

Deniz Berfin Karakoc, Junren Wang, Megan Konar

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Abstract

Food supply chains are essential for distributing goods from production to consumption points. These complex supply chains are important for food security and availability. Recent research has developed novel methods to estimate food flows with high spatial resolution, but we do not currently understand how fine-grained food supply chains vary in time. In this study, we use an improved version of the Food Flow Model to estimate food flows (kg) between all county pairs across all food commodity groups for the years 2007, 2012, and 2017 (which requires estimating 206.3 million links). We then determine the core counties to the US food flow networks through time with a multi-criteria decision analysis technique. Our estimates of county-to-county food flows in time are freely available with this paper and could be useful for future research, policy, and decision-making.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Article number034035
JournalEnvironmental Research Letters
Volume17
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - Mar 2022

Keywords

  • United States
  • data driven
  • food flows
  • high-resolution
  • time series

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
  • General Environmental Science
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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