Executive Summary Background and Methodology Pressures of the globalized food system have left communities and individuals in precarious situations in which nutritious and accessible food is not a given; research has begun to suggest that relocalization efforts will not necessarily alleviate these trends without directed efforts to produce exchanges that enhance both food and farm security. Exi...

Jason Block and S. V. Subramanian explore avenues for improving the health of Americans through reducing dietary inequalities and look at whether concern over "food deserts" has been taken too far.

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The Paycheck Protection Program was a highly unusual policy measure enacted to provide bridge capital support small businesses coping with the dramatic downturn in demand due COVID-19 pandemic. By design, program effectively required potential applicants work through bank whom they had relationship. Yet large swathes of country are banking deserts, which dramatically steepen gradient for those ...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES The concept of "food deserts" has been widely used in Western countries as a framework to identify areas with constrained access to fresh and nutritious foods, providing guidelines for targeted nutrition and public health programs. Unlike the vast amount of literature on food deserts in a Western context, only a few studies have addressed the concept in an East Asian conte...