” has greatly increased over the past 15 years in the USA and the world. Since the 1990s, when the concept of “food deserts” and their possible connections to health was first suggested by researchers and activists in the UK, the idea that low access to supermarkets carrying...
Synonyms Food swamp; Low-food-access zone; Obesogenic environments Introduction Interest in areas with poor access to healthy foods, or what have often been dubbed "food deserts," has greatly increased over the past 15 years in the USA and the world. Since the 1990s, when the concept of "...
This chapter uses case studies on market reform and private trade in Eastern and Southern Africa, India, MENA and transaction costs and agricultural productivity in Madagascar to determine the impact on measures of household welfare. We also examine the presence of food deserts in the US. This ...
Association of Living in Urban Food Deserts with Mortality from Breast and Colorectal Cancer. Abigail J. Fong, Kelly Lafaro, Philip H. G. Ituarte, Yuman Fong. Cedar-Sinai Hospital, Los Angeles, CA, USA; City of Hope National Medical Center, Duarte, CA, USA; Johns Hopkins University, Baltim...
of all living matter, or “biomass,” in a biological system such as a food chain, and that the consumers – the animals – account for only the remaining 10 percent. Plant productivity, always tenuous in our hard and unforgiving deserts, can impose severe limits on the consumer population....
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Ploeg,Michele,Ver - 《Amber Waves the Economics of Food Farming Natural Resources》 被引量: 34发表: 2010年 Food swamps and food deserts in Baltimore City, MD, USA: associations with dietary behaviours among urban adolescent girls Objective To determine whether living in a food swamp (≥4 corne...
Higher prices, fewer choices: shopping for food in rural America Public Voice for Food and Health Policy (1990) Google Scholar Morton et al., 2005 L.W. Morton, E.A. Bitto, M.J. Oakland, M. Sand Solving the problems of Iowa food deserts: Food insecurity and civic structure Rural. Soc...
Furey, S., Strugnell, C., & McIlveen, H. (2001). An investigation of the potential existence of “food deserts” in rural and urban areas of Northern Ireland.Agriculture and Human Values, 18 Google Scholar Khoury, C. K., Bjorkman, A. D., Dempewolf, H., Ramirez-Villega, J., Gu...
In light of claims that many low-income urban neighborhoods are "food deserts," this article reports on pilot research to assess whether and how small, full-service food retailers contribute to urban food security. It demonstrates that such stores meet many of the criteria for community food sec...