food deserts
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Mom-and-pop vs. big-box stores in the food desert
A locally owned grocery in Pleasantville, Iowa. Photo: Ashton B Crew, wikimedia commonsA few weeks ago, when the Obama administration released its Food Desert Locator, many of us realized that a once-good idea has spoiled like a bag of old bread. If you go online and find that your family lives in a food desert, […]
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The 'food desert' in the heart of California's farming region
The Central Valley of California produces half the fruits and vegetables grown in the US, yet its farmworker families have little access to fresh food
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The ‘food desert’ in the heart of California’s farming region
The Central Valley of California produces half the fruits and vegetables grown in the US, yet its farmworker families have little access to fresh food
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Welcome to the food deserts of rural America
How is it possible that people in farm country have a hard time finding food? In short, food deserts are complicated.
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How the places we live make us sick, and how they could heal us instead
Our built environment is quite literally driving us down the road to obesity and stress. A group of planners in Vancouver wants to turn that around.
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New tool maps and grades 'food deserts' to lure supermarkets
The Reinvestment Fund's PolicyMap layers several types of demographic data to reveal which areas really lack access to food.