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The University of Michigan has done a study finding that in some cases food produced in an urban environment makes a negative contribution to the effort to stem climate change. Backyard vegetables can produce up to six times the atmospheric carbon of commercial produce.
This is bad news for immigrants from countries where almost everyone is involved in small-scale agriculture in one form or another and plots of vegetables are a tradition as well as a food source. In fact, urban gardens are already discouraged by local governments for other reasons.
A portion of the funding for the study, which included eight universities, was from the US National Science Foundation, an agency of the US government.
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