Community-wide food demand and associated environmental outcomes for Delhi, India
Green house gas emissions, water, and land footprints of community-wide food demand for Delhi: linking demand, production & intensity factors
This dataset includes the community-wide food demand of residents (Government of India (GOI) National Sample Survey (NSS) for over 150 food items across socio-economic classes) industries (from GOI Annual Survey of Industry detailing mass food inputs to food processing industries within Delhi) and commercial (including both residential use from the NSS and tourist use from the GOI Ministry of Tourism). Community-wide food demand is scaled by India-specific wastage factors to determine the quantity of production serving urban demand. Food waste generation quantities for residents (solid and liquid waste) is also reported.
Water, GHG and land impacts are reported for agricultural production (both in- and transboundary) serving urban demand. Energy, GHG and water are reported for in-boundary food use, with GHG impact for food waste generation (liquid and solid waste).
The combination of the data described allows for development of coupled GHG/energy, water and land footprints.
Key Highlights
1. Community-wide food demand of homes, businesses and industry across >150 food types
2. Intensity of production systems across states serving Delhi
3. Coupled water, energy/GHG and land footprints
Uses and Visualizations
Used to visualize footprints (Ramaswami et al 2017) and scenario modeling (Boyer & Ramaswami 2017)
Technical Details
This dataset is copyrighted and licesnsed through Creative Commons License Attribution Non- Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
Citation
Boyer, D. & Ramaswami, A. (2018). GHG, water, and land footprints of community-wide food demand for Delhi: linking demand, production & intensity factors. Dataset for year 2011. Global City Data Project: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.
Publications
Boyer, D., & Ramaswami, A. (2017). What Is the Contribution of City-Scale Actions to the Overall Food System’s Environmental Impacts? Assessing Water, Greenhouse Gas, and Land Impacts of Future Urban Food Scenarios. Environmental Science and Technology, 51(20).
Ramaswami A., Boyer, D., Nagpure, AS., Fang A, Bogra S, Bakshi B, Cohen, E. & Rao-Ghorpade A. (2017) An urban systems framework to assess the trans-boundary food-energywater nexus: Implementation in Delhi, India Environmental Research Letters. 12.
Authors
In order to access the data, contact these authors.
Anu Ramaswami: anu.ramaswami@princeton.edu
Bhartendu Pandey: bp0244@princeton.edu
