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Food Deserts in Urban America: Problems and Solutions (Market-based…
Food Deserts in Urban America: Problems and Solutions
Defining terms of the argument
What constitutes 'healthy' food options for a community?
What conditions represent evidence of the presence of a 'food desert'?
Distance? Quality of food offered?
Government based solutions
Produce subsidies
Already in place - how effective?
Food stamps
Increasingly being cut
Proposed solutions
Increased community involvement
Community based definition of health
Community based definition of access
Gentrification's role
Gentrification used as an excuse to make change w/o
community consent
Is gentrification inevitable?
Do new options marketed as 'solutions' to food deserts hurt
impoverished communities instead?
Market-based solutions
Supply-side solutions
Wholesale produce network
Govt. subsidies
Public-private partnerships
Connection to gentrification?