Members
Val Healy, Ceri Riley
Topics
Current environmental/human influences on agriculture (urbanization, desertification, industrial farming/animal agriculture) and how this impacts food security
Goals
Changing behavior, educating people about agricultural impacts — both food choices and environmental/land use choices — without sensationalizing the information
Techniques
Simple interactive/web visualization or infographic
Data/Story
Food Environment Atlas – USDA
This dataset contains a lot of information, but we chose to look at the fact that 50.54% of Farmers Markets in the United States sell fruits & vegetables, while 46.94% sell animal products, and 50.66% sell ‘other’ (presumably flowers and other non-edible products). We wanted to look at the story surrounding farmers markets nationwide to see how local farms/agriculture might help provide different types of food choices to people.