Per a report published Thursday by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert Woods Johnson Foundation, adults in Illinois are among those in 16 st...
In a move that exemplified Rahm Emanuel's approach to Chicago's most intractable problems, the city's new mayor sat down on Wednesday with the leaders...
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...
In Steven Casey's Englewood neighborhood, milk and eggs, bread and bologna are easy to find. "In the 'hood, you can get meat all day long," he said. "...
They may be clamoring for Wal-Marts on the South Side, but on the North Side on Monday night, the "smiley faces" were few and far between during a mee...
What is needed is a networked clearinghouse of ideas and best practices, recipes, demonstrations, and methods for getting people excited about preparing and sharing fresh, wholesome, local food.
How is it that 17 million children in the U.S. live on the brink of hunger while, at the same time, 9 million American children are obese? It's certainly a troubling paradox.
Across the country, we've seen that when Walmart sets up shop in poor neighborhoods, they do more harm than good. Nationally, when Walmart enters a new market, it kills three jobs for every two jobs it "creates."
For some, low-end retail is a godsend. Questionable food and part-time jobs with no benefits are better than no food and no jobs. For others it is a bad omen.
Research indicates that children who live near a park are less likely to be overweight than kids without a park nearby. Ensuring our kids have safe places to play can be a simple part of a solution to our crisis of obesity.
Behind Walmart's high profile donations to fight hunger, there is a decidedly less charitable story that is repeating itself throughout corporate America.
CVS and Walgreens are increasing their stocks of fresh produce in the vast areas of Chicago with no grocery stores.
Fruits, vegetables, prepared meal...
cross-posted from Not Eating Out in New York
It's summer. There's produce, plenty of it local. It's coming to supermarkets, restaurants and Greenmark...
Through the nonprofit organization he founded, agriculturalist Will Allen has dedicated himself to creating sustainable community farms in urban areas...
The late senator Ted Kennedy once said that LAANE "changed the lives of countless families in Southern California." He was talking about the Los Angel...
"We want to transform the food deserts of Los Angeles into a promised land of access to healthy food," said Elissa Barrett, executive director of the ...
Although the idea of urban farming might be unknown to many people, or just assumed to be commonplace in coastal areas such as San Francisco and Brooklyn, Detroit is becoming more about potatoes than pistons.
The White House blog just released a new video of Michelle Obama talking about her goal of eliminating "food deserts" which are usually low-income urb...
In New York, a unique private-public partnership is deploying specially-permitted street vendors selling only fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods with significant health problems