FOOD
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FOOD DESERT
FOOD DESERT RESOURCES
11 FACTS ABOUT FOOD DESERT
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FOOD
DESERT
Food deserts are defined as parts of the country vapid of fresh
fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods, usually found
in impoverished areas. This is largely due to a lack of grocery
stores, farmers’ markets, and healthy food providers.
USDA Defines Food deserts
http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/usda-defines-food-deserts
Food Access Research Atlas
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/
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SECTION 2
FOOD DESERT
RESOURCES
Food Deserts
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_desert
Agroecology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroecology
Banking desert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banking_desert
Book desert
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_desert
Food choice
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_choice
Food choice of older adults
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_choice_of_older_adults
Food deserts by country
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_deserts_by_country
Food Empowerment Project
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_Empowerment_Project
Food Safety
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_safety
Food Security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_security
Ghetto Tax
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghetto_tax
Nutrition
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition
Supermarket Shortage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermarket_shortage
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SECTION 3
11 FACTS
ABOUT
FOOD DESERT
1. “Food deserts” are geographic areas where access to affordable,
healthy food options (aka fresh fruits and veggies) is limited or
nonexistent because grocery stores are too far away. Run a food
drive (outside your local grocery store!) to support a food bank.
2. About 23.5 million people live in food deserts. Nearly half of
them are also low-income.
3. Approximately 2.3 million people (2.2% of all US households)
live in low-income, rural areas that are more than 10 miles from
a supermarket.
4. Food deserts may be under-reported because the North American
Industry Classification System places small corner grocery stores
(which often primarily sell packaged food) in the same category
as grocery stores like Safeway and Whole Foods.
5. Residents living in food deserts also have a hard time finding
foods that are culturally relevant and that meet their dietary
restrictions.
6. First Lady Michelle Obama’s campaign to fight childhood obesity,
“Let’s Move,” has a goal of eradicating food deserts by 2017.
7. There is a $400 million investment from the government towards
this initiative, which will go towards providing tax breaks for
supermarkets that open in food deserts.
8. You can find food deserts near you with the USDA’s new food
desert locator map.
USDA’s new food desert locator map
https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/go-to-the-atlas.aspx
9. People living in the poorest SES (social-economic status) areas
have 2.5 times the exposure to fast-food restaurants as those living
in the wealthiest areas.
10. With limited options, many people living in food deserts get meals
from fast-food restaurants.
11. Food insecurity has a high correlation with increased diabetes rates.
In Chicago, the death rate from diabetes in a food desert is twice that
of areas with access to grocery stores.
11 Facts About Food Deserts
https://www.dosomething.org/facts/11-facts-about-food-deserts
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FOOD
DESERT
LINKS
Food Desert
https://www.fastcompany.com/40514428/to-end-a-food-desert-these-community-members-opened-their-own-grocery
Food Desert
http://www.foodispower.org/food-deserts/
Food Desert
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/topic/food-deserts
Food Desert
http://www.fooddeserts.org/
Food Desert
http://www.justharvest.org/advocacy/food-deserts/
Food Desert
https://www.britannica.com/topic/food-desert
Food Deserts in America
https://socialwork.tulane.edu/blog/food-deserts-in-america
Food Deserts: Causes, Consequences and Solutions
https://www.tolerance.org/lesson/food-deserts-causes-consequences-and-solutions
Food Desert Research
http://mda.maryland.gov/about_mda/Documents/food.desert.pdf
Food Deserts: What is the Problem? What is the Solution?
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12115-016-9993-8
A Look Inside Food Deserts
https://www.cdc.gov/features/FoodDeserts/index.html
The Shocking Reality of Food Deserts in America
https://www.feedingchildreneverywhere.com/blog/the-shocking-reality-of-food-deserts-in-america/
The Socio-Economic Significance of Food Deserts
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/the-socio-economic-significance-of-food-deserts
Solving the Problems of Food Deserts
https://www.capella.edu/blogs/cublog/public-health-and-the-problem-of-food-deserts/
Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of-food-deserts-and-obesity-challenged-in-studies.html
The Urban Food Project
http://revbirmingham.org/rev-biz/the-urban-food-project/
What's a food desert?
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science/food-desert.htm
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Food Timeline
http://www.foodtimeline.org/
The Grocer's Encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Grocer%27s_Encyclopedia/
What Eats?
http://www.whateats.com/
Fermentation in food processing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermentation_in_food_processing
Portal:Agriculture and Agronomy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Agriculture_and_Agronomy
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