TY - JOUR
T1 - Food access and food deserts
T2 - the diverse methods that residents of a neighborhood in Duluth, Minnesota use to provision themselves
AU - Pine, Adam
AU - Bennett, John
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014, © 2014 Community Development Society.
PY - 2014/8/1
Y1 - 2014/8/1
N2 - Using data from a survey of residents living in a United States Department of Agriculture defined food desert in Duluth, Minnesota, this article examines the diverse ways that people living in a neighborhood without a grocery store feed themselves. We found that there is no singular experience of living in a food desert. Many neighborhood residents were highly mobile and shopped at a wide variety of local grocery stores, and a small group of neighborhood residents without cars relied on public transit, neighborhood convenience stores, and borrowing vehicles in order to provision themselves. These coping strategies were expensive and time-consuming, especially for the most vulnerable members of the community such as single parents and those without cars. We use the variety of experiences of people living in a food desert to propose interventions that would help improve food access in the community.
AB - Using data from a survey of residents living in a United States Department of Agriculture defined food desert in Duluth, Minnesota, this article examines the diverse ways that people living in a neighborhood without a grocery store feed themselves. We found that there is no singular experience of living in a food desert. Many neighborhood residents were highly mobile and shopped at a wide variety of local grocery stores, and a small group of neighborhood residents without cars relied on public transit, neighborhood convenience stores, and borrowing vehicles in order to provision themselves. These coping strategies were expensive and time-consuming, especially for the most vulnerable members of the community such as single parents and those without cars. We use the variety of experiences of people living in a food desert to propose interventions that would help improve food access in the community.
KW - food access
KW - food desert
KW - neighborhood
KW - urban development
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U2 - 10.1080/15575330.2014.930501
DO - 10.1080/15575330.2014.930501
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84907577059
SN - 1557-5330
VL - 45
SP - 317
EP - 336
JO - Community Development
JF - Community Development
IS - 4
ER -