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Food deserts occur in poor urban areas with limited or no access to healthful affordable food options. [27] [28] Low income families are more likely to not have access to transportation so tend to be negatively affected by food deserts. [27] An influx of people moving into such urban areas has magnified the existing problems of food access. [29]
Based on the European or American understanding of food deserts, the fact that there is access to supermarkets by definition would mean that Cape Town does not suffer from food deserts. [26] Africa suffers from food deserts, and there is also a direct link between climate change and the rapid growth of food deserts. [26]
According to the USDA, in 2015, about 19 million people, around 6% of the United States population, lived in a food desert, and 2.1 million households both lived in a food desert and lacked access to a vehicle. [25] However, the definition and number of people living in food deserts is constantly evolving as it depends on census information. [28]
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.
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 ...
County councilman wants to address food deserts across the county.
There have been multiple studies regarding the effects that University food deserts have on students. A study conducted by researchers Jaapna Dhillion, L. Katrina Diaz Rios, Kaitlyn J. Aldaz, and their peers, looked into the perception of first-year minority students attending a school in a food desert at the University of California.
For 74-year-old Fred Cook – and thousands of other people in some city neighborhoods, grocery shopping is a tough task.