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A 2009 study of rural food deserts found key differences in overall health, access to food, and the social environment of rural residents when they were compared to urban dwellers. [23] Rural residents report overall poorer health and more physical limitations, with 12% rating their health as fair or poor, compared to 9% of urban residents. [23]
Of this number, 19 million people live in "food deserts", low-income census tracts that are more than one mile from a supermarket in urban or suburban areas and more than 10 miles from a supermarket in rural areas. [6] [7] Food deserts tend to be inhabited by low-income residents with inadequate access to transportation, which makes them less ...
There are distinct differences between how hunger is experienced in the rural and urban settings. Rural counties experience high food insecurity rates twice as often as urban counties. It has been reported that approximately 3 million rural households are food insecure, which is equal to 15 percent of the total population of rural households. [21]
In the U.S. over the past 25 years, urban farming has become crucial in helping alleviate a phenomenon known as food deserts, where grocery chains began pulling out of inner cities and residents ...
This is far from the economic reality for much of rural America. Communities like mine in rural northwest Oklahoma have long been food deserts. This is an unfortunate reality for most of our state ...
African food deserts have been defined as "poor, often informal, urban neighborhoods characterized by high food insecurity and low dietary diversity, with multiple markets and market and non-market food sources but variable household access to food." [1] The definition of a food desert often relates to the distance between residents and the ...
In rural areas, low-income groups have less access to healthy foods than high income groups. [59] These so-called "food deserts" lack adequate grocery stores or markets that provide fresh and nutritious foods. [60] Some note that food deserts also constitute regions where health foods are available but are expensive or inconsistently stocked.
Urban agriculture refers to various practices of cultivating, processing, and distributing food in urban areas. [1][2] The term also applies to the area activities of animal husbandry, aquaculture, beekeeping, and horticulture in an urban context. Urban agriculture is distinguished from peri-urban agriculture, which takes place in rural areas ...