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 "...
” 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...
In preparing this article, I have drawn, in no particular order, from various articles in DesertUSA’s Internet site; James A. MacMahon’sDeserts,part of the Audubon Society Nature Guide series; Ann and Myron Sutton’sThe Life of the Desert,part of the McGraw-Hill Book CompanyOur Living ...
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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 ...
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 corner stores within 0·40 km (0·25 miles) of home) or a food desert (generally, no supermarket... ER Hag...
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...
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...
The first two kingdoms, the plants and the animal, form principal links in earth’s food chains, including those of the Southwestern deserts. How the System Works In the system founded by Linnaeus, the plant and animal kingdoms include categories of organisms known as: ...
In our Chihuahuan, Sonoran and Mojave Deserts, as in the other lands of the world, the insect population accounts for more species than all the other animal groups combined. In our deserts, the insects comprise well over 10,000 species that have been described, likely with as many more awai...