Americans Eat More Vegetables Than 5 Years Ago, Study Finds
More than 90 percent of Americans think equal access to fresh produce is very or somewhat important, according to a new survey by the W.K. Kellogg Fou...
More than 90 percent of Americans think equal access to fresh produce is very or somewhat important, according to a new survey by the W.K. Kellogg Fou...
The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 05.18.2012
Remember when we told you about the D.C. Mobile Market, the school bus that was turned into a farmers market on wheels? The project, dreamed up by ...
Ann Bauer | Posted 05.11.2012
My turn at poverty was sudden and relatively brief. But I do know something about how living that way increases body mass and how seemingly impossible it is to turn the weight around.
Mike Curtin | Posted 04.25.2012
Food access is a complicated issue. While this web is as vexing as it is complex, it will not become less troublesome, tragic, or costly if we do nothing.
Flickr user daysofthundr46 | Alice Hines | Posted 02.23.2012
Dollar stores are thriving in this weak recovery as struggling Americans look for deals on the basics. Dollar Tree, the nation's third largest doll...
HuffingtonPost.com | Rachel Tepper | Posted 11.14.2011
WASHINGTON -- With awareness growing about "food desert" communities locally, one area restaurant consortium is launching a new program aiming to brin...
Turnstyle | Posted 10.16.2011
Originally published on Turnstylenews.com, a digital information service surfacing emerging stories in news, entertainment, art and culture; powere...
Posted 08.15.2011
About one billion people in the world face hunger or undernourishment. To put it in perspective, that's more people than the total populations of the ...
Posted 07.16.2011
A food desert is defined as an area where food is non-existent, not healthy or too expensive. The government recently released a food desert locator a...
Posted 07.03.2011
The USDA has launched a food desert locator that indicates areas in which there is low access to supermarkets or other sources of fresh food. About...
Slate Labs | | Bethany McLean | Posted 05.25.2011
A 2009 study by the Department of Agriculture found that 2.3 million households do not have access to a car and live more than a mile from a supermark...
Al Norman | Posted 05.25.2011
Mayor Still Has it Wrong About Wal-Mart By Al Norman Wal-Mart apparently views locating new stores in urban Chicagoland as something like a soccer...
Liz Neumark | Posted 05.25.2011
How interesting to embark on a project developing the menu for a museum whose surrounding neighborhood -- El Barrio -- has been described as a food desert.
Chicago Public Radio | Chip Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011
A Latino-led private-equity firm has agreed to open a supermarket in a Chicago area that's been labeled a food desert....
Mari Gallagher | Posted 05.25.2011
We spend billions of dollars in this country treating diseases that could be moderated or prevented by better and healthier food access and choice. A great number of these treatments are for the uninsured and take place in the emergency room. This is not cost-effective.
The Huffington Post | Rachel Tepper | Posted 05.22.2012