1. How can Malmö be more selfsufficient in the future? Where are the borders of Malmö’s food production area? Where are the limits for what Malmö can produce? How can a transition in
the way we farm increase the flexibility of Malmö and the Öresund region. A restructuring of the argricultural methods, and with that, the Skåne landscape, will change what we eat, where
we buy what we eat and who works with food production.
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2. The facts on which these calculations are based:
Population of Malmö: 286,535 people.
The area of Malmö is 38,548 acres (156 km².)
Population of Skåne: 1,184,500 people.
The area of Skåne is 2,724,771 acres (11 027) km²
source: www.wikipedia.se
An average personal field in western agriculture: 1.2 acres.
source: FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY
by David Pimentel of Cornell University and
Mario Giampietro Istituto of Nazionale della Nutrizione, Rome
A permacultural forest garden can feed 10 people on an area of only 2.1 acres.
source: BBC documentary “A Farm for tje Future“, www.agroforestry.co.uk/
Arable land in Malmø is 13,032 acres.
Arable land in Skåne is 1,123,618 acres.
source: www.sjv.se, www.scb.se
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4. With traditional farming on Malmö’s arable land (33%), Malmö can produce food for 10860 people. That is 3,8% of the population.

5. With traditional farming on Skåne’s arable land, Skåne can produce food for 936348 people. That is 79% of the population in Skåne.

6. With a transition to permaculture Malmö can produce food for 62057 people. That is 22% of the population.

7. With a transition to permaculture Skåne can produce food for 5.350.561. That is 452% of the population in Skåne.

8. The area within the feeder road can hold a forest garden of 11.5 acres, which is enough to feed 54 people.

9. How will it actually effect Malmö to persue a forestgarden within the city?