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A 2017 study found that food deserts tend to be in places where poor minority communities reside. [29] Sometimes, the issue with urban food deserts is not the lack of food in the area, but rather the lack of nutritional knowledge about food. [30]
The 1995 South African Income and Expenditure Survey found an urban food insecurity rate of 27 percent, relative to the rural rate of 62 percent. [4] Later studies such as the National Food Consumption Survey of 1999 [5] and South African Social Attitudes Survey of 2008 independently assessed the urban food insecurity rate to be roughly half of that of the rural rate.
The term "urban food deserts" is traditionally applied to North America and Europe, but in recent years, the term has been extended to Africa as well. It has taken time for researchers to understand Africa's urban food deserts because the conventional understanding of the term must be reevaluated to fit Africa's unconventional supermarkets. [26]
Food desert impact: Kroger closure to affect surrounding Murfreesboro neighborhoods in 'huge way,' customer says City hopes revitalization will attract grocery store. Grocery store retailers are ...
Walmart has pledged to open 300 stores in food deserts by 2016; SuperValu , parent of Albertsons, Shaw's, and several other supermarket chains, has planned 250 stores in such locations.
Around 47 million people in the U.S. are food insecure, according to the nonprofit Feeding America. Hargins said through the organization, he hopes to improve diets, health and more.
According to the USDA, in 2015, about 19 million people, around 6% of the United States population, lived in a food desert, and 2.1 million households both lived in a food desert and lacked access to a vehicle. [24] However, the definition and number of people living in food deserts is constantly evolving as it depends on census information. [27]
Every week, the local nonprofit API Forward Movement packs hundreds of 5-pound tote bags filled with locally grown produce like bok choy, napa cabbage, daikon and Chinese eggplant in their ...