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Food deserts occur in poor urban areas with limited or no access to healthful affordable food options. [26] [27] Low income families are more likely to not have access to transportation so tend to be negatively affected by food deserts. [26] An influx of people moving into such urban areas has magnified the existing problems of food access. [28]
In 2011 16.7 million children lived in food-insecure households, about 35% more than 2007 levels, though only 1.1% of U.S. children, 845,000, saw reduced food intake or disrupted eating patterns at some point during the year, and most cases were not chronic. [33] Almost 16 million children lived in food-insecure households in 2012. [34]
Walmart has pledged to open 300 stores in food deserts by 2016; SuperValu , parent of Albertsons, Shaw's, and several other supermarket chains, has planned 250 stores in such locations.
Over 500,000 Oklahomans are experiencing food insecurity, 200,000 of which are children. The fact that many children in our state are going to bed hungry is heartbreaking.
A longitudinal study of food deserts in JAMA Internal Medicine shows that supermarket availability is generally unrelated to fruit and vegetable recommendations and overall diet quality. [59] In a 2018 article in Guernica, Karen Washington states that factors beyond physical access suggest the community should reexamine the word food desert itself.
A sanitation contractor was fined nearly $172,000 after federal authorities discovered that the company employed 11 children to do "dangerous work" at a pork processing facility in Iowa, USA TODAY ...
The Locator provides a spatial view of food deserts, defined as a low-income census tract where a substantial number or share of residents has low access to a supermarket or large grocery store. The mapped deserts can be used to direct agency resources to increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables and other food assistance programs. [145]
A 2016 USDA map. According to the Medley Food Desert Project, in 2017, nearly 24 million Americans lived in food deserts. [16] Food deserts are heavily concentrated in southern states, which correlates with concentration of poverty, including the south's Black belt. The map shows the percentage of people without cars living in areas with no ...