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Pandemic Reveals Vulnerabilities in Food Access: Confronting Hunger Amidst a Crisis

Journal of Public Policy & Marketing JPP&M, 2020
Emergencies and disasters often expose existing flaws in our systems As Warren Buffet said, “It’s only when the tide goes out that you discover who’s been swimming naked” (Emanuel 2020) We have been swimming in the buff The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed ...
Melissa G. Bublitz, Natalie Czarkowski, Jonathan Hansen, L. Peracchio, Sherrie Tussler   +4 more
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Fresh food access revisited

Cities, 2016
Abstract This study uses service area-based coverage and Poisson regression methods to assess the neighborhood fresh food environment (supermarkets, local grocery stores, farmers' markets, and community gardens), and investigates the fresh food access in association with different socio-economic groups in Edmonton, Canada.
Haoluan Wang, Feng Qiu
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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

Retail Food Access and Household Food Waste

2021
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Li, Wenying, Cuffey, Joel, Yu, Yang, Miao, Ruiqing, Li, Wenying, Cuffey, Joel, Yu, Yang, Miao, Ruiqing   +7 more
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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, Cathy Yang Liu
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Food Access

2013
The Importance of Local Food Systems: A little known fact is that, generally speaking, food consumed in the United States travels 1,500 miles from the farms that grow our food to the forks that serve it to us. Also not well known, is that in 2006, the value of food imported into the United States exceeded the value of food exported – challenging our ...
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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

Food access, local foods, and community health

Community Development, 2017
In this analysis, we look for patterns in the relationship between food access, local foods, and community health at the US county level.
Steven Deller, Amber Canto, Laura Brown
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Food Stamp Program Access. [PDF]

, 2001
Discusses effective access to the program by people who are eligible for it, noting that at any given time, only 59 percent of those who were eligible participated in 1998. Furthermore, this number has been declining since the passage of welfare reform legislation in 1996. Although there are many reasons for not participating, the most common reason is
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Food access in crisis: Food security and COVID-19

, 2021
S. O’Hara, Etienne Toussaint
semanticscholar   +1 more source