Urban Food Flows

Cities

  • Cape Town
  • London
  • Mexico City
  • Milan

Single-city data

Comparative data

Imports

Cape Town London Mexico City Milan
Food Group Total (t) Per-capita (kg) Total (t) Per-capita (kg) Total (t) Per-capita (kg) Total (t) Per-capita (kg)
Alcoholic Beverages
Animal fats
Aquatic Products, Other
Cereals - Excluding Beer 318,981 70.7 732,053 81.7
Eggs 77,758 17.2
Fish, Seafood 55,302 12.3 90,601 10.1
Fruits - Excluding Wine 281,846 62.4
Meat 309,448 68.6 355,121 39.6
Milk - Excluding Butter 108,685 24.1 307,345 34.3
Miscellaneous 2,076,199 460.0 1,710,950 190.9
Offals
Oilcrops 1,054 0.2
Processed Food 3,221,549 713.7
Pulses
Spices
Starchy Roots 186,572 41.3
Stimulants 124,289 13.9
Sugar Crops
Sugar & Sweeteners 722,800 80.7
Treenuts
Vegetable Oils
Vegetables 138,884 30.8 1,418,155 158.2
Total
This software is made available under an open source license. All code can be viewed on github.
The data on this website comes from a number of different sources, all of which are documented in the master spreadsheet for each city.
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