The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) atlas on food deserts shows that most food deserts in California are in highly rural (USDA, 2017). Northern California, the Mojave Desert, and the Imperial Valley all have a high prevalence of food deserts (USDA, 2017). A closer look ...
The United States Department of Agriculture and the private sector have not yet created food desert assistance programs. However, Feeding America, which is a network of 201 nonprofit Food Banks, has already implemented assistance programs. This research assessed Food Banks' food desert related ...
the United States Department of Agriculture launched a map of where food stores are located in all the US counties. Mari Gallagher, who runs a private consulting firm, says her researchers have mapped food stores and related them to health statistics for the cities of Detroit, Chicago, Cincinnat...
the general problem of distance in regards to food deserts is the fact that they disproportionately affect the least fortunate amongst us which also are, as a whole, the least mobile amongst us - with rural minorities living in poverty being the most likely to live in a food desert. ...
Northern California, the Mojave Desert, and the Imperial Valley all have a high prevalence of food deserts (USDA, 2017). A closer look at the map also shows a significant amount of food deserts in urban areas of highly populated cities. Large portions of neighborhoods in urban areas like ...
Now, more US cities are becoming aware of their food landscapes. Last year, the United States Department of Agriculture launched a map of where food stores are located in all the US counties. Mari Gallagher, who runs a private consulting firm, says her researchers have mapped food stores and...
the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. This paper surveys whether food deserts have formed in a large Japanese city, Hodogaya ward in Yokohama City. To estimate how many people were in a food desert, we used GIS to map the precise locations of local fo...
food environmentfood desertspatial accessibilityGISPublic health researchers have begun to map the neighborhood food environment and examine its association with ... MDM Bader,M Purciel,P Yousefzadeh,... - 《Economic Geography》 被引量: 153发表: 2010年 Differences in Food Environment Perceptions and...
in remote areas: seniors, persons with disabilities, and American Indians living on reservations. We need more data and studies to be conducted on these groups to understand the importance of access. See the food desert map athttp://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/food-access-research-atlas/....
[ing] to dollar seed packets from Walmart that they knew were inferior”. Many community residents similarly cite the value of the program for their immediate rural community, which is a USDA-designated food desert. Freely distributing seeds directly to members of the community or through ...