L'Espunyola. PATXI URIZ | DIPUTACIÓ DE BARCELONA
L'Espunyola. PATXI URIZ | BARCELONA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL

Berguedà is the most self-sufficient county in Barcelona in terms of food

With 34,916 hectares of available land, Berguedà could feed its citizens abundantly: it has a degree of self-sufficiency of 255%.

Do the municipalities in the Barcelona province have enough agricultural land to supply their citizens with local food? The third BCN Smart Rural Data Bite, entitled "Lands that Feed Us", addresses a question that many towns and cities in the territory are currently asking. And, among its conclusions, it highlights the fact that, although Barcelona is the third Catalan demarcation with the largest agricultural area, it is the one with the least capacity to provide local food to the citizens of its territorial area. Having said that, this information is hardly surprising since the province concentrates 74% of the total population of Catalonia.

The most interesting data that emerges from the new analysis report prepared by the BCN Smart Rural team are the following:

To obtain this data, the authors of the "Lands that Feed Us" report analyzed food consumption data in Catalonia. From there, they calculated what is the amount of agricultural land per inhabitant in the demarcation of Barcelona, both at the municipal and county level and compared it with the indicators available at the level of the rest of Catalonia.

The analysis of the general data shows that the demarcation of Barcelona is still farming land, but when it comes to supplying its citizens with local food, it is affected by the high population density in the territory.

For more information about this data, please contact Lucía Nieto and Daniel Farré, land engineers and GIS experts of the BCN Smart Rural strategy.

 

— BCN Smart Rural Editorial —

Patates de muntanya. PATXI URIZ | DIPUTACIÓ DE BARCELONA

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