2021年6月14日 · Food deserts are areas in which healthy food is overly expensive or unavailable. This article explains the causes and health effects of food deserts, along with potential solutions.

2023年3月20日 · Fortunately, there is great potential for solutions to address food deserts and create a more equitable food system. For this reason, we should all be working toward a more equitable distribution of food, supporting policies that discourage food deserts, and promoting education and community initiatives to bring healthy foods into areas ...

2024年3月8日 · Food deserts are areas where people have limited access to healthful and nourishing foods. Poverty and other socioeconomic factors can cause food deserts.

2025年1月8日 · The Food Access Research Atlas (formerly the Food Desert Locator) is a mapping tool that allows users to investigate multiple indicators of food store access.

2022年11月9日 · In food deserts, community members don’t have access to grocery stores that sell affordable and nutritious foods, but they might have access to highly processed foods full of sugar or sodium. There are different food desert solutions that can be implemented, but we have to understand the causes in order to determine a starting point.

2020年9月11日 · Millions of people in the US and around the world live in “food deserts”: areas where it’s hard or even impossible to find healthy food. These food deserts promote poor health outcomes, are a drag on our economy, and reinforce the worst effects of racism.

2022年2月22日 · What Is A Food Desert? A food desert is an area where people have very limited access to healthy, affordable food. Somebody living in a food desert faces daily obstacles preventing them from going to a grocery store and buying …

2022年7月7日 · Food deserts are places that are marked by a lack of stores selling healthy food in local areas. Here’s a closer look at what food deserts are, how they come to exist, and what we can do to alleviate them. WHAT ARE FOOD DESERTS?

2024年12月21日 · Food deserts represent a multifaceted problem rooted in a complex interplay of social, economic, and geographic factors. Understanding what causes food deserts is crucial as it allows communities and policymakers to develop effective solutions.

2021年2月22日 · Numerous solutions to get food into these deserts are being piloted, with some of the most exciting and effective ones being created by grassroots initiatives working directly with the communities they serve. Such projects are found in neighborhoods around the world. Here are five of our favorites. 1. Food Co-ops.