A food desert is an area that has limited access to food that is plentiful, affordable, or nutritious. In contrast, an area with greater access to supermarkets...
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The first standard uses the original USDA food desert mapping tool "Food Desert Locator". It defines food deserts as having at least 33% or 500 people...
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of food desert issues and solutions by country. African food deserts are due to accelerated urbanization, the various ways individuals acquire food through...
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A desert is a landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions create unique biomes and ecosystems. The lack of vegetation...
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comparable to that of a food desert. Those in a food desert have poor local access to nutritious food sources; those in a food swamp have easy local access...
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Food Desert Oasis Pilot Program, intended to combat food deserts. A food desert defined by the United States Department of Agriculture's Healthy Food...
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urban areas as well. The term is inspired by the analogous concept of a food desert. An estimated 30 million Americans, many in rural regions of the country...
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of 2020. The USDA defines a food desert as a region without access to nutritious, affordable and quality whole foods. Food deserts are areas with a 20...
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processed foods make up a significant portion of unhealthy convenience foods. Food portal Drink portal Comfort food Convenience store Food desert Food packaging...
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collaborative effort between countries and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Desert Locust Information Service (DLIS), which provides global...
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adaptations occur in food crops. Mission Garden is a living agricultural museum that showcases foods that have been grown in the Sonoran Desert for over 4000...
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pain, and to regulate emotions. "The Science behind Comfort Food - Desert Hope". Desert Hope. Archived from the original on 6 September 2018. Retrieved...
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The Thar Desert, also known as the Great Indian Desert, is an arid region in the north-western part of the Indian subcontinent that covers an area of...
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Basic needs (section Food pantries on college campuses)
resemble a food desert. The concept of the food desert has been increasingly linked to spatial reasons of poverty. It was understood that the food desert was...
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Sahara (redirect from Sahara desert)
/səˈhærə/) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of 9,200,000 square kilometres (3,600,000 sq mi), it is the largest hot desert in the world...
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Gulf War (redirect from Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm)
key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began with...
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residents. In 2022, the area had a new grocery store to alleviate the area food desert and received a proposal for a new STEAM academy. Once part of Cicero...
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was created through a partnership with PepsiCo to bring healthy food to the food desert of Dallas. The college was founded by a small group of African...
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The Atacama Desert (Spanish: Desierto de Atacama) is a desert plateau located on the Pacific coast of South America, in the north of Chile. Stretching...
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brumation facilitates survival during freezing temperatures and low food availability. Desert tortoises can tolerate water, salt, and energy imbalances on a...
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The Gobi Desert (Mongolian: Говь, ᠭᠣᠪᠢ, /ˈɡoʊbi/; Chinese: 戈壁; pinyin: gēbì) is a large, cold desert and grassland region located in northern China and...
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Southern Africa (section Agriculture and food security)
link] Battersby, Jane (1 June 2012). "Beyond the food desert: finding ways to speak about urban food security in South Africa". Geografiska Annaler: Series...
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May 23, 2022. Gramza, Janet (May 16, 2022). "Buffalo unites to feed 'food desert' after mass shooting closes supermarket". Buffalo News. Archived from...
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have replaced many abandoned lots. A Food desert is a neighborhood where there is a shortage of places to buy food. Despite the closure of a new supermarket...
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Navajo Nation is considered to be a food desert and a significantly disproportionate number of Navajo people face food insecurity relative to the average...
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A transit desert is an area with limited transportation supply. Developed from the concept of food deserts, various methods have been proposed to measure...
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Hunger in the United States (redirect from Food security in the United States)
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. However,...
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Desert greening is the process of afforestation or revegetation of deserts for ecological restoration (biodiversity), sustainable farming and forestry...
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Desert elephants or desert-adapted elephants are not a distinct species of elephant but are African bush elephants (Loxodonta africana) that have made...
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in which no new physics appears Food desert Desert (English band), an English electronic and house music duo "Desert" (Émilie Simon song), a 2002 song...
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