نتایج جستجو برای: food access

تعداد نتایج: 588050  

Journal: :International Journal of Health Geographics 2008
Kristian Larsen Jason Gilliland

BACKGROUND A growing body of research suggests that the suburbanization of food retailers in North America and the United Kingdom in recent decades has contributed to the emergence of urban 'food deserts', or disadvantaged areas of cities with relatively poor access to healthy and affordable food. This paper explores the evolution of food deserts in a mid-sized Canadian city (London, Ontario) b...

2011
Margalit Levin

This is a scoping paper that addresses healthy food access in Melbourne. The investigation is premised the concept of ‘food deserts’, spaces within cities that lack ‘adequate access’ to affordable, healthy food. The paper is more broadly located within the on-going debate around Melbourne’s purported two-track urban growth. However, the paper reframes the discussion away from housing supply/dem...

2014
Donna B Johnson Emilee Quinn Marilyn Sitaker Alice Ammerman Carmen Byker Wesley Dean Sheila Fleischhacker Jane Kolodinsky Courtney Pinard Stephanie B Jilcott Pitts Joseph Sharkey

BACKGROUND Policies that improve access to healthy, affordable foods may improve population health and reduce health disparities. In the United States most food access policy research focuses on urban communities even though residents of rural communities face disproportionately higher risk for nutrition-related chronic diseases compared to residents of urban communities. The purpose of this st...

Guyu Ferede Daie, Tadele Tesfaye Labiso,

Background: Villagization scheme was chosen as a policy option and implemented to ensure sustainable food security in Assosa zone, Benishangul-Gumuz region, Ethiopia, although it is blamed for intensifying food insecurity instead. Therefore, the present study aimed to examine the food security status of households gathered in planned villages in the framework of villagization. Methods: This cro...

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