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We mapped how food gets from farms to your home

  • Written by Megan Konar, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
We mapped how food gets from farms to your homeWhere has your produce been?CoolR/Shutterstock.com

My team at the University of Illinois just developed the first high-resolution map of the U.S. food supply chain.

Our map is a comprehensive snapshot of all food flows between counties in the U.S. – grains, fruits and vegetables, animal feed, and processed food items.

To build the map, we...

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