PFI Lightning Talks

At the Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) Conference, Tiffanie Stone presented how climate-smart local Iowa vegetables are compared to US conventional vegetables, which primarily come from California, based on environmental impacts across the entire food system (using a life cycle assessment (LCA) approach). This lightning talk is part of the outreach plan for the first LCA study conducted within the Iowa UrbanFEWS project. They found that commercial-scale Iowa vegetable production requires about half the energy and greenhouse gas emissions and about 10% of the water compared to conventional food system scenarios.