Food deserts
Food Deserts: The Issue and Possible Solutions
... FOOD DESERTS 17 Coupons and price reductions have been used for all types of food items, and now nutritional programs have been making coupons more available for certain grocery stores and farmers’ ...
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As the Crow Flies: An Underrepresentation of Food Deserts in the Rural Appalachian Mountains
... to food desert school districts in rural ...for food desert assessment instead of using all food outlets in order to ensure access to a greater variety of food, and in particular, to more ...
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Do residents of food deserts express different food buying preferences compared to residents of food oases? A mixed-methods analysis
... influencing food buying practices according to food desert status as shown with the pattern match and average cluster ratings (Figure ...that food purchasing preferences are similar among resi- dents ...
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Access to Healthy Foods: A Descriptive Analysis of Farmers’ Markets, Food Deserts & USDA Food Assistance Programs in Tennessee Census Tracts
... in food deserts by utilizing spatial analyses to investigate disparities in access to healthy foods, and providing evidence of how federal food assistance programs support and offer benefits to both ...
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Back to Basics: Is Civic Agriculture the Solution to Food Deserts in Texas?
... transform food deserts of Texas into ...Service Food Environment Atlas and the US Census Bureau, in order to investigate the association between civic agriculture in the form of farmers markets and ...
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Mapping of Grocery Stores in Slovak Countryside in Context of Food Deserts
... of food deserts in an urban or rural areas can be considered a suitable tool for planners and managers of government and retail ...of food deserts may also evaluate in the social and economic ...
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Food Deserts: Low Income Communities and their Lack of Adequate Nutrition
... by food deserts, due to their lack of transportation to attain healthy food choices; they might have to settle with a fast food that is usually much closer to their ...health food ...
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The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics
... Orleans food deserts, and issues of food security, food politics, and food culture, can be better ...understood. Food availability in New Orleans, and in many urban centers in ...
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Assessing the Methods in Identifying Rural Food Deserts: A Quantitative Systematic Review
... healthy food) play a crucial role in providing healthy foods to individuals (Glanz et ...healthy food outlets ...healthy food choices to adhere to a healthy diet (Drewnowski et ...healthy food ...
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The Effect of Food Deserts on the Body Mass Index of Elementary School Children
... “food deserts” play a role in childhood obesity using a statewide panel data set of Arkansas elementary ...average food desert effect. We next compare children who left (entered) food ...
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If You Build It, Will They Come, and What Will They Eat? Investigating Supermarket Development in Food Deserts
... a food desert as an “underserved” area follows a market theory, and identifies communities that have been overlooked by private capital investment (Weissbourd & Berry, 1999; Pawasarat & Quinn, 2001; TRF, ...
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Identifying food deserts and swamps based on relative healthy food access: a spatio-temporal Bayesian approach
... constraints food access within the DA or buffering ...are food deserts (Areas 1 and 2 have cal- culated RHFA = 0 %) and the other pair are food swamps (Areas 3 and 4 have calculated RHFA = ...
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Mapping the evolution of 'food deserts' in a Canadian city: Supermarket accessibility in London, Ontario, 1961–2005
... A major contribution of this research resulted from the utilization and evaluation of different measures to deter- mine accessibility; the methods outlined here should serve as guidelines for future studies of ...
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How to identify food deserts in Amazonian cities?
... Within the cities studied shopping from a mixture of small shops is much more significant to shopping behaviour than access to large supermarkets. Using data from 304 shops surveyed during March and April 2015 this paper ...
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A GIS-based Methodology Toward Refining the Concept of Rural Food Deserts: A Case Study from Rutland County, Vermont
... any food deserts within Rutland ...to food based on a qualitative assessment of access to healthier food options, uses a high-resolution road network, and includes many smaller food ...
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“At-Risk” Food Deserts in Lincoln, Nebraska
... most. Food is a fundamental need of all humans, and as our economic system requires money in exchange for food, the development of grocery stores and supermarkets in underserved areas can improve them in ...
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Socio-Demographic and Economic Determinants of Food Deserts
... 2011). Food deserts are not only a problem for urban cities because in rural areas, residents sometimes need to drive longer distances to purchase healthy ...
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The case of Montréal's missing food deserts: Evaluation of accessibility to food supermarkets
... potential food deserts, are located in Montréal-Nord (district 8), in Saint- Michel and Parc-Extension (district 19), in the Sud-Ouest (district 16) and in the boroughs of Côte-des-Neiges (dis- trict 3), ...
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Obesity among black women in food deserts: An "omnibus" test of differential risk.
... poor-quality food en- vironments differentially affect low- and high-socioeconomic status (SES) ...healthy food corresponds with increased risk of obesity among residents of low- and high-poverty ...
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Maximize Impact, Minimize Resources: Locating Food Deserts and Increasing SNAP Spending on Fruits and Vegetables
... community food assessment that would be the basis for a long- range plan addressing identified community needs and interests (Carbaugh Associates, ...City’s food system within a 250-mile (400-kilometer) ...
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