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Shaw, Hillary John. "The ecology of food deserts." Thesis, University of Leeds, 2003. http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2157/.

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During the second half of the twentieth century there has been a transformation in the way groceries are bought in Britain. Global economic, social, and demographic trends have helped the supermarket, a shopping institution unknown in 1950s Britain, to gain over three quarters of the share of groceries bought in the UK in 2003. Accompanying this has been a major decline in the number of small neighbourhood shops selling groceries, and especially in those selling fresh fruit and vegetables. Because many of the supermarkets have tended to locate in areas away from the residential districts where

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Cameron, Caitlin. "Geography of urban food access : exploring potential causes of food deserts." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/73811.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2012.<br>Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.<br>Includes bibliographical references (p. 82-86).<br>We believe we understand food deserts, but we do not. In the last decade the phenomenon of food deserts has been often discussed, and many solutions are proposed to alleviate food access issues in American cities. However, I argue that the efficacy of these solutions is questionable until the causes of urban food deserts are better understood. Beyond the economics of retail grocery exist systemic, physi

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Taylor, Nicole. "The Public Market System of New Orleans: Food Deserts, Food Security, and Food Politics." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2005. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/250.

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This study evaluates the public market system in New Orleans, Louisiana by focusing on the history of New Orleans public markets, the privatization of food, and the "greening" of the city with the creation of the Crescent City Farmers Market and other grass roots food activist efforts. Using qualitative methods, ethnographic fieldwork, participant observation and interviewing, issues of food access, food security, food production, food locality, quality, and affordability in New Orleans are explored. The history of public markets in New Orleans and the patterns of market proliferatio

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ALNASRALLAH, MOHAMMAD A. "FOOD DESERTS AND MINORITY POPULATION IN AKRON, OHIO." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1352329178.

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Mann, David. "Urban Agriculture: A Response to Urban Food Deserts." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1250617494.

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Mann, David R. "Urban agriculture a response to urban food deserts /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1250617494.

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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2009.<br>Advisor: Frank Russell. Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed Dec. 15, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: urban agriculture; food systems; food deserts. Includes bibliographical references.

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Nickanor, Ndeyapo Martha. "Food deserts and household food insecurity in the informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/9297.

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Includes bibliographical references.<br>Rapid urbanization and rising urban poverty characterize much of Sub-Saharan Africa in the 21st Century. Africa's urban transition provides the context within which this thesis examines the causes and consequences of poverty and food insecurity in the growing informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia. Rapid urbanization in Windhoek has been accompanied by limited industrialization with few job opportunities in the formal employment sector. Moreover, the informal sector has not been able to absorb the ever rising volume of migrants from the rural areas, i

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Stein, Dana Beth. "Food Deserts' and 'Food Swamps' in Hillsborough County, Florida: Unequal Access to Supermarkets and Fast-Food Restaurants." Scholar Commons, 2011. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/3366.

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Research has shown that the suburbanization of supermarkets has created `food deserts', defined as areas where socially disadvantaged individuals lack access to nutritious food outlets. Additionally, the growing presence of fast-food restaurants has created `food swamps', or areas where socially disadvantaged individuals encounter an overabundance of unhealthy food outlets. While previous studies have analyzed either `food deserts' or `food swamps' using conventional statistical techniques, a more comprehensive approach that includes samples of both healthy and unhealthy entities and considers

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MOSSLER, ADRIENNE C. "Urban Agriculture and Education Center: An Answer to Urban Food Deserts." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1212011471.

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Rissler, Patrick S. "Food availability in rural Kansas: coping strategies for people living in low access food areas." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/18925.

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Master of Arts<br>Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work<br>Gerad Middendorf<br>In the last 70 years, there has been a decline in population of rural Kansas. For example Gove, KS, the county seat of Gove County has seen a population decline of 355% from 284 in 1940 to 80 residents in the 2010 US Census (US Census). Along with general population decline in rural areas, is decline the overall number of farms, while the average farm size has increased (Kansas Dept. of Agriculture). The decline of the population of rural communities has caused the erosion of basic infrastructure, l

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Byg, Reed Lauren. "Sprawling Fields and Food Deserts: An ontological exploration of food and farming systems in Ohio." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99295.

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Ohio is one of the largest agricultural producers in the United States and yet Ohioans experience food insecurity at a rate two percent higher than the national average. An analysis of Ohio's agricultural sector in relation to the current global food system suggests that the neoliberal imaginary orders social and ecological relations at both the international and domestic levels. This ordering perpetuates and justifies the continued exploitation of both labor and land and is based on ontological separation of human and ecological systems. This imaginary has given rise to the framework of food

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Mossler, Adrienne C. "Urban agriculture and education center an answer to urban food deserts /." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc_num=ucin1212011471.

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Thesis (Master of Architecture)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.<br>Advisors: Jay Chatterjee (Committee Chair), Elizabeth Riorden (Committee Co-Chair). Title from electronic theses title page (viewed Sept. 5, 2008.). Includes abstract. Keywords: grocery; food deserts. Includes bibliographical references.

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Wadlington, Twanda D. "Access to Healthy Foods: A Descriptive Analysis of Farmers’ Markets, Food Deserts & USDA Food Assistance Programs in Tennessee Census Tracts." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3326.

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Food deserts are a growing problem in the United States, and occur in areas of low-income where people have limited access to healthy foods. In response, the presence of farmers’ markets has grown exponentially, and improved healthy food access. Additionally, the USDA has strived to connect families to healthy foods through food assistance programs such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), and the Senior Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program (SFMNP). This study investigated the relationship betwe

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Rice, Ketra Lachell. "Measuring the likelihood of food insecurity and adult consumption of fruits and vegetables in Ohio's 'food deserts'." The Ohio State University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1391694721.

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Zimmerman, Kate Moriah. "TEACHER AWARENESS OF FOOD ACCESS, INTEREST, AND BARRIERS TO SCHOOL GARDENS IN FOOD DESERTS IN SOUTHERN ILLINOIS." OpenSIUC, 2013. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1224.

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Food deserts are characterized by reduced access to fresh, healthy foods. In rural areas, children who live in food deserts may be at increased risk for obesity, and have increased need for school-based interventions that target obesity, such as those aimed at increasing fruit and vegetable intake. Teachers can facilitate healthy behaviors within students through nutrition education and monitoring. Because school gardens represent an important opportunity to increase intake of fruits and vegetables, thereby possibly reducing obesity in children, the purpose of this study is to understand teach

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Hall, William. "(Un)Making the Food Desert: Food, Race, and Redevelopment in Miami's Overtown Community." FIU Digital Commons, 2016. http://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3033.

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In recent years, efforts to transform food environments have played a key role in urban revitalization strategies. On one hand, concerns over urban food deserts have spurred efforts to attract supermarkets to places where access to healthy food is difficult for lower income residents. On the other, the creation of new spaces of consumption, such as trendy restaurants and food retail, has helped cities rebrand low-income communities as cultural destinations of leisure and tourism. In cities around the US, these processes often overlap, converting poorer neighborhoods into places more desirable

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Regan, Amanda D. "Assessing the Role of Smaller Format Retailers on the Food Desert Landscape in Dallas, Texas." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2013. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc271885/.

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Many policy and business decisions regarding food deserts in the U.S. are based on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) definition of a food desert. This definition only includes large/national chain grocery retailers, based on the assumption that these major retailers are the only affordable sources of food contributing to balanced diets. As alternative distribution channels, including smaller stores, start to include groceries in their product offering, the need to consider the role of other businesses in the food retailing environment should be addressed. This thesis assesses

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Benwell-Lybarger, Jerian. "Food availability in Eatonville, Florida." Honors in the Major Thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETH/id/663.

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Food availability is a serious problem for some low-income neighborhoods. This study examines food access in Eatonville, Florida, a small town in Orlando, Florida. Eatonville was one of the first African American towns incorporated into the United States after emancipation. It is a low-income community with 25% of the overall population and 30% of children living below the poverty line. This study will examine the state of food availability through food store and resident surveys in hopes of diagnosing need in order to alleviate it. There are serious implications for residents of cities with i

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Gorst, Charlotte. "Eradicating East London's 'food deserts' : evaluating the role and success of community food access projects in South Newham /." Leeds : University of Leeds, School of Geography, 2006. http://0-www.leeds.ac.uk.wam.leeds.ac.uk/library/secure/counter/geogbsc/200506/gorst.pdf.

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Jettner, Jennifer F. "Community gardens: Exploring race, racial diversity and social capital in urban food deserts." VCU Scholars Compass, 2017. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/4784.

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Study purpose. The study examined race and racial diversity in community gardens located in Southern urban food deserts, as well as the capacity of community gardens to generate social capital and promote social justice. Methods. A mixed-methods approach was used to describe characteristics of gardeners and community gardens located in urban food deserts, and test Social Capital Theory hypotheses. A convenience sample of 60 gardeners from 10 community gardens was obtained. Data was collected using surveys and semi-structured interviews. Analyses. Univariate and bivariate statistics were used t

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Ning, Jingwei. "Improving the USDA's Definition of Food Deserts via a Spatial Interaction Approach A Case Study of Hamilton County, Ohio." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1337351602.

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McCoy, Ashley L. "Food Deserts in the Inland Empire: Locating Space for Urban Gardens in Ontario, California." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2011. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/pomona_theses/96.

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Food insecurity is defined as “a household‐level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food” (USDA Economic Research Service 2009). Low‐income households tend to be food insecure for many reasons. The first and most obvious would be the access to monetary resources. If a household does not have a sufficient income, it is difficult to keep an adequate amount of food for all household members at all times. Another reason would be that many low‐income households cannot afford a car and/or do not have easy access to public transportation or reliable private trans

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Burroughs, Amanda Marie. "Beyond Food Access: Accumulation by Dispossession and Dollar General in Central Appalachia." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/104156.

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Dollar General has seen massive growth, opening almost 1,000 stores per year for ten years. Executives attribute the company's success to their attention to the expanding poverty class in low-food-access urban and rural areas. Central Appalachia in particular -- which has one of the highest rates of low food access and poverty in the nation -- has been a growth center for Dollar General stores. Has the growth in Dollar General stores in Central Appalachia affected residents' food procurement patterns? Through an analysis of USDA data on food access and by conducting interviews with 11 people l

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Richards, Kasie. "As the Crow Flies: An Underrepresentation of Food Deserts in the Rural Appalachian Mountains." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1453.

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Diet and dietary related health outcomes such as obesity and diabetes are major public health concerns. While personal choice and dietary behaviors are major influences on how an individual eats, the environment influences these choices and behaviors. The nutrition environment is one key influence and its relationship with food choice, behaviors, and socioeconomic influences is complex. Within the structure of the nutrition environment, food access and socioeconomic status compound influencing nutrition behavior and food choice. Food deserts are defined as geographic region of low access to he

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Chatterji, Madhubanti. "Association Between Food Deserts and Diabetes Related Morbidity and Mortality Among Residents of Fulton County, Georgia." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/iph_theses/273.

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Background: Diabetes is one of the leading causes of death and disability among chronic diseases in the United States. Type 2 diabetes, which accounts for 90-95% of all diabetes cases, is a preventable form of disease which can be controlled through diet and physical activity. But residents of places such as ‘food deserts’, with no access to fresh food, often bear the burden of chronic diseases such as diabetes. There have been very few studies which have particularly looked at the association between food environment and diabetes prevalence in such deprived areas. Objective: The study invest

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Menefee, Daja C. "Mediating effects of social capital and grocery stores on obesity rates in rural food deserts." Thesis, Kansas State University, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/16315.

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Master of Science<br>Department of Agricultural Economics<br>Hikaru Hanawa Peterson<br>Over the past few decades, the prevalence of obesity and diet-related diseases has steadily increased and become a major public health concern. Part of the problem has been attributed to the large quantity of unhealthy (energy-dense) foods U.S. consumers include in their diets. Statistics on food environment suggest that some areas and households have easier access to fast food restaurants and convenience stores but limited access to supermarkets. Limited access to nutritious food and relatively easier acces

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Weaver, Andrew R. "Leadership and community engagement in supermarket recruitment." Kansas State University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/34635.

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Master of Regional and Community Planning<br>Department of Landscape Architecture/Regional and Community Planning<br>Huston Gibson<br>Tens of millions of predominantly low-income, minority Americans live in food deserts – areas with poor access to healthful, affordable food. Food deserts have been associated with higher rates of diet-related diseases such as high blood pressure and obesity. These diseases carry significant morbidity and mortality and account for hundreds of billions of dollars in healthcare spending and lost productivity per year in the U.S. Establishment of a supermarket is

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Jimenez, Roxanne. "Effectiveness of Nonprofits on Factors That Influence the Social Aspects of Well-Being in Food Deserts." Case Western Reserve University School of Graduate Studies / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1620146299409908.

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Sparks, Andrea Leigh. "Measuring food deserts : a comparison of models measuring the spatial accessibility of supermarkets in Portland, Oregon /." Connect to title online (Scholars' Bank), 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/7863.

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Willis, Kimberly Lakeidra. "Beliefs and Opinions of Low-Income Residents Living in a Food Desert in a Gulf Coast State." ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/6496.

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This study was an investigation of the access problem to fresh and affordable fruits and vegetables and how limited access influenced the beliefs and opinions of residents of a food desert as designated by United States Department of Agriculture. Many researchers have documented that price, availability, and transportation are barriers to fruit and vegetable consumption, particularly among low-income individuals. Researchers in other studies have concluded that these barriers are further exacerbated by an individual's distance from a supermarket or grocery store. However, much less information

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Chen, Xiang. "Bringing Time into Measure of Food Access: Place vs. People." The Ohio State University, 2014. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1404313043.

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Davis, Deidra Denice. "Access to Fresh Foods: Socio-Economic Characteristics of Illinois Farmers' Markets Participating in Government Funded Food Assistance Programs." OpenSIUC, 2012. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/818.

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The USDA's Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program's (SNAP) strives to connect SNAP recipients to local and healthful food sold at Farmers' markets. These efforts are an attempt to provide families, struggling to make ends meet, access to healthy foods and food purchasing power via the Federal Food Stamp program. However, of the 288 listed farmers' markets in Illinois only 25 are listed as SNAP/EBT accepting markets (2010 National Farmers Market Directory). The first part of this study uses the 61st Street Farmers Market as a case study, investigating the practical market operations and in

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Furey, Mary Sinead. "An investigation to identify the characteristics, extent and location of 'food deserts' in rural and urban areas of Northern Ireland." Thesis, University of Ulster, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.393554.

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Almehmadi, Fahad. "Technology to Address Food Deserts: Hybrid Application of Combined Heat And Power Assisted by Solar Dehumidification for Corner Store Groceries." University of Dayton / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=dayton1605543916479185.

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Osborne, Whitney. "Rethinking the American Dream." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1554374234857258.

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Collins, LaPorchia Antoinette. "Three Essays Examining Household Demand for Healthy Foods." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1469056517.

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Ford, Paula Brigid. "The local food environment and its association with obesity among low-income women across the urban-rural continuum." Diss., Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1334.

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Earle, Jeremy. "Local Governmental Development of Alternative Food Systems in Distressed Urban Areas." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2970.

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Alternative food systems (AFS) projects are designed to address issues of environmental justice, food security and insecurity, community health disparities between the affluent and the poor, and access to healthful foods in distressed urban areas. Past research has questioned the efficacy and long-term viability of such interventions, particularly in distressed primarily Black urban areas. The purpose of this intrinsic case study (ICS) was to understand the ways in which local governmental entities collaborated with each other and with nongovernmental partners to help develop an AFS in South F

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Fernández, Andrés Javier. "Can urban agriculture become a planning strategy to address social-ecological justice?" Thesis, KTH, Hållbar utveckling, miljövetenskap och teknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-217000.

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Last century witnessed an unprecedented growth of cities which has led to the consolidation of an eminently urbanised world population. Meanwhile, agriculture has adopted industrial methods of production in the shape of large-scale, chemical-laden crops in the countryside, which, together with the liberalisation of global trade, have undermined the livelihood of small-scale peasants throughout the world, forcing many of them out of business. The food industry has responded to the high rates of hunger and malnutrition with an extraordinary increase in production that has not solved food securit

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Rice, Ketra Lachell. "A Multi-Method Analysis of the Role of Spatial Factors in Policy Analysis and Health Disparities Research." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1365613669.

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Groen, Jean, and Don Wells. "Desert Plant Food." University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556695.

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Chavez, Margeaux Alana. "Desert in the Springs: Ethnography of a Food Desert." Scholar Commons, 2013. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/4807.

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"Food desert" commonly describes food insecure areas with few fresh food outlets. Though used in a number of sources, the definition of "food desert" remains largely undeveloped and research is often deficit oriented, failing to account for community assets that may exist within food deserts but are underutilized or under-supported. Using an assets-based, ethnographic approach, this study combines GIS and survey methodology with participant observation and qualitative interviews to assess the potential positive effect of urban agriculture on food accessibility in Sulphur Springs, a USDA identi

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Bhansali, R. Raj. "Famine Foods of Rajasthan Desert." University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ), 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/556800.

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Budzynska, Katarzyna. "A food desert in Detroit: associations with food intakes, eating behaviors, and obesity." Thesis, Boston University, 2012. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/12299.

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Thesis (M.S.)--Boston University PLEASE NOTE: Boston University Libraries did not receive an Authorization To Manage form for this thesis or dissertation. It is therefore not openly accessible, though it may be available by request. If you are the author or principal advisor of this work and would like to request open access for it, please contact us at open-help@bu.edu. Thank you.<br>Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity has increasing at an alarming rate and is currently estimated to be 67% ofthe US population. Obesity is associated with several chronic medical conditions, an

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Kelly, Jazmone E. "The Availability, Affordability, and Quality of Healthy Food Options in an Urban Local Food Desert." University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1479816298389627.

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Ross, Gloria Jean. "Food deserted: race, poverty, and food vulnerability in Atlanta, 1980 - 2010." Diss., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/53062.

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The concept of food deserts, as a measure of low-income neighborhoods with limited access to affordable and healthy produce, can be helpful as a tool to quantify and compare food vulnerabilities, as many recent studies have demonstrated. However, the term masks the role that systems of racism and capitalism have played in producing food vulnerabilities. To explore this gap in the literature, this dissertation addresses two central research questions. The first central research question asks, what are the influential demographic and spatial patterns that have shaped supermarket access in low-in

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Onukwubiri, Enyinnaya Tochukwu. "Connecting the City: A Vertical Farm for Baltimore's Food Desert." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/79901.

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The thesis analyzes Baltimore City's food network, and seeks a site which has the potential for several factors: site accessibility, renewable resources, solar exposure, and connecting the community. These factors serve as the basis in which to build a hybrid prototype that is able to expose people to the process of food production through a combination of traditional outdoor farming methods and indoor hydroponics in the form of a vertical farm.<br>Master of Architecture

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Flower, Thomas Patrick. "Food theft by deceptive alarm calls in the fork-tailed drongo." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2012. https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/265529.

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Why do animals make false alarms; are false alarms truly deceptive; and if, just as in Aesop's fable 'The boy who cried wolf' , animals can learn to ignore false alarms, why doesn't deception break down? I investigated these questions in a population of habituated and individually recognisable fork-tailed drongos (Dicrurus adsimdis), in the South African Kalahari Desert. Drongos either self-foraged, when they hawked and gleaned small insects, or followed other species stealing large terrestrial prey that hosts excavated. Stealing food from other species enabled drongos to capture prey otherwis

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McQueary, Brandy Jeanette. "Cincinnati Food Security: A Community Assessment." Cincinnati, Ohio : University of Cincinnati, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc//view?acc_num=ucin1211996556.

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Thesis (Master of Community Planning)--University of Cincinnati, 2008.<br>Advisors: Jan Fritz PhD (Committee Chair), Rainer vom Hofe PhD (Committee Member). Title from electronic thesis title page (viewed July 16, 2009). Includes abstract. Keywords: Food security; food desert; grocery stores; Cincinnati. Includes bibliographical references.

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Norris, Jessica R. "FOOD LANDSCAPES: A CASE STUDY OF A COOKING AND ART- FOCUSED PROGRAM FOR TEENS LIVING IN A FOOD DESERT." VCU Scholars Compass, 2014. http://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/3575.

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This study constructs themes and propositions about the experiences of youth participants in the fall 2013 Food Landscapes program at the Neighborhood Resource Center in Richmond, Virginia. During the program, youth participated in cooking-based volunteerism with adults with disabilities and created short videos about their experiences. In this study, I analyzed pre- and post-program participant interviews, twice-weekly program observations, and facilitator reflections to understand how Food Landscapes affected youths’ conception of community engagement and communication strategies. This case

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