Food access and food deserts

The diverse methods that residents of a neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota use to provision themselves

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6182005
AutoresAdrienne Pine (0000-0001-5819-3640), Adam Pine, John Bennett
Año2014
Volumen45
Número4
Páginas317-336
Fecha de publicación2014-08-08
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaCommunity Development (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1557-5330 • E-ISSN: 1944-7485
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15575330.2014.930501
OpenAlexW2080235078
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4
Referencias citadas25

Using data from a survey of residents living in a United States Department of Agriculture defined food desert in Duluth, Minnesota, this article examines the diverse ways that people living in a neighborhood without a grocery store feed themselves. We found that there is no singular experience of living in a food desert. Many neighborhood residents were highly mobile and shopped at a wide variety of local grocery stores, and a small group of neighborhood residents without cars relied on public transit, neighborhood convenience stores, and borrowing vehicles in order to provision themselves. These coping strategies were expensive and time-consuming, especially for the most vulnerable members of the community such as single parents and those without cars. We use the variety of experiences of people living in a food desert to propose interventions that would help improve food access in the community

Business · Environmental health · Geography · Grocery store · Healthy food · Political science · Psychological intervention · Public transport · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Marketing