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Can cities help us fight climate change?

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The Importance of Good Soil for Food Growing

Jess Davis is a professor of sustainability and an environmental scientist at Lancaster University. She has become really interested in urban soils and their potential for supporting food growing. As the climate changes, we'll need to work out how future city dwellers are going to be fed. Jessica: If we used all of that space, then we could grow the equivalent of more than four times what we currently grow and import for crops well-seated to Britain.

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