This infographic comes to us from our good friends at the Fair Food Network. Oran Hesterman, executive director of the Detroit based nonprofit, hired renown economist Michael Shuman to research the potential impacts of shifting the local food economy in Michigan up by 20%. This graphic is part of a summary of Shuman’s report that tries to shed some light on the power of a local food economy.
The big thing to look for here is the opportunity represented by these numbers. How can we as a community of food producers seek to fill some of these niches, and in so doing capture a rich market that we are otherwise simply throwing away?
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