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Food Deserts: Where Nutrition Meets Inequality
What is a food desert? The 2008 Farm Bill defines a food desert as an “area in the United States with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, particularly such an area composed of predominantly lower income neighborhoods and communities.” According to the USDA, to qualify as a “low-access community,” at least 500 people and/or…
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Food and Revitalization: Examining the Underlying Structural Problems of Food Deserts
BY ALEX BLUESTONE For most, the term conjures up notions of an urban, post-industrialized city in which a poor—and often marginalized—neighborhood whose residents are limited in their ability to procure healthy food. The result is that, as some research has shown, in neighborhoods and areas with the worst access to food, residents die from cardiovascular-related…
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