foodshed
n.— «According to a study undertaken in the Recife foodshed area…,the lower 58 percent of families spent approximately 70 percent of their income on food.» —“Bodo Was Never Brazilian: Economic Integration and Rural Development among a Contemporary Peasantry” by J. F. Riegelhaupt; S. Forman Journal of Economic History Mar., 1970. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
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