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Does Urban Agriculture Improve Food Security? Examining the Nexus of Food Access and Distribution of Urban Produced Foods in the United States: A Systematic Review

open access: yesSustainability, 2018
The aim of our review is to critically analyze the urban agriculture and urban food systems literature in order to understand the impact of urban-produced foods on community food security.
Alana Siegner   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Riots and resources: How food access affects collective violence

, 2020
How does food access affect the mobilization of collective violence? The upsurge in rioting in 2008 drew broad attention to the relationship of food and conflict, as scholars and policymakers sought to understand the mobilization and variation of rioting
Alison Heslin
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Neighborhood Diversity and Food Access in a Changing Urban Spatial Structure

, 2020
This paper examines food access disparity in relation to neighborhood diversity, especially race/ethnicity and poverty in a changing intrametropolitan spatial structure, using the Atlanta Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) as a case study. With detailed
Joowon Jeong, C. Liu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Food access, food security and community gardens in Rockford, IL

Local Environment, 2018
Walter W Furness, Courtney M Gallaher
exaly   +2 more sources

Association of food access and neighbor relationships with diet and underweight among community-dwelling older Japanese

open access: yesJournal of Epidemiology, 2017
Background Food access is important for maintaining dietary variety, which predicts underweight. The aim of this study was to examine the association of food access and neighbor relationships with eating and underweight.
Hideko Nakamura   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Urban foodscape trends: Disparities in healthy food access in Chicago, 2007–2014

Health and Place, 2018
&NA; We investigated changes in supermarket access in Chicago between 2007 and 2014, spanning The Great Recession, which we hypothesized worsened local food inequity.
Marynia Kolak   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

Enhancing the Two-Step Floating Catchment Area Model for Community Food Access Mapping: Case of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Professional Geographer, 2019
In this article, a Gaussian-based two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) model is applied to evaluate the geographical accessibility to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)-authorized retailers.
Xiang Chen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mobile technology and food access

World Development, 2019
Access to food is a basic pillar of human development. It is therefore unsurprising that it features so centrally on global development agendas and that a robust, interdisciplinary literature seeks to examine its determinants.
Léonard Wantchekon, Zara Riaz
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluating the impact of a healthy corner store initiative on food access domains.

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2019
Healthy Corner Store Initiatives (HCSIs) are one food access strategy that aims to improve food environments by supporting local food stores in expanding their healthy offerings. This study presents the evaluation results from one such HCSI.
Lauren Paluta   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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