Food Deserts

By: Claire EverettAGCM 220

October 13, 2011

What is a food desert?

USDA definition

Both Urban and Rural areas

Alternate Stakeholder Definition

USDA food desert locator

23.5 million Americans

http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/

Why are there food deserts?

Grocery stores risk not making profit

Whole Foods-3.69 percent profit

Supervalu-.67 percent profit

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ProfitImplicit/Explicit Costs

Profit Per Every Hundred Dol-lars: Supervalu

According to Yahoo Business Charts, 2010

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Average Profit Per Dollar: Supervalu

ProfitImplicit/Explicit Costs

Solution: Wal-Mart, Pros

http://www.flickr.com/photos/50399324@N07/5431035029/

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/tag/wal-mart-express/

Solution: Wal-Mart, Cons

http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2011/02/01/another-proposed-chicago-wal-mart-sparks-opposition/

http://earthfirst.com/profits-before-people-7-of-the-world’s-most-irresponsible-companies/

Solution: Education

Or

“Many times we want healthy foods, and companies add them only to have them sit there” (Drago, 2011). Lorena Drago, South Bronx Dietician

http://www.howtoshopforfree.net/tag/pop-tarts-coupon/

http://technorati.com/lifestyle/article/blueberries-for-better-health/

Urban Farming Projects

Green Youth Farm, Chicago, IL

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Increasing Access and Availability

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/16/fresh-moves-mobile-grocer_n_878414.html

http://ruralcommunitybuilding.fb.org/2010/05/27/veggie-perscriptions-to-improve-health/

USDA Rural Development

Provide people who want to start farms with loans/grants

43 programs to end rural food deserts

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Works Cited

 Whitacre, T., Tsai, P., & Mulligan, J. (2009). The public health effects of food deserts: Workshop summary. Washington D.C. : National Academies Press.

No more food deserts. The drought is over! (2011). Retrieved from fresh moves mobile produce market: http://freshmoves.org/about/

Center for Urban Pathology. (2011, August 31). Bodega down Bronx. Retrieved from http://www.gilttaste.com/stories/1779-where-does-your-convenience-store-food-come from?utm_source=Food%2BTech+Connect+Newsletter&utm_campaign=852709613d-Food_T  

United States Department of Agriculture. (2011, October). Food desert locator. Retrieved from http://www.ers.usda.gov/data/fooddesert/fooddesert.html

Flickr. (2011, July). Let’s move! photo-stream. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/50399324@N07/5431035029/

CBS Chicago. First small scale Wal-Mart express opens. (2011, July). Retrieved from

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/tag/wal-mart-express

Earth first. Profits before people: 7 of the world’s most irresponsible companies.(2009, August). Retrieved from http://earthfirst.com/profits-before-people-7-of-the-world’s-most-irresponsible-companies/

Lydersen, Kari. Another proposed Chicago Wal-Mart opposition. (February, 2011). Retrieved from http://www.todaysworkplace.org/2011/02/01/another-proposed-chicago-wal-mart-sparks-opposition/