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Tufts Researchers and USDA Economist Find ‘Food Deserts’ Pretty Rare

By News Desk on May 21, 2014

New research from Tufts University and a USDA economist published by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review casts doubt on the popular theory surrounding so-called food deserts in the U.S. The concept of a…
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Is Walmart’s March into Cities Helping or Hurting?

By Michele Simon on January 17, 2012

Having saturated the rural landscape, shuttering local stores in small town America along the way, now, in the wake of stagnant sales and increased competition, Walmart desperately needs to expand into urban markets.

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USDA Intros Online Tool for Locating Food Deserts

By News Desk on May 3, 2011

A new Internet-based mapping tool pinpoints the location of what the U.S. government calls “food deserts.”

The online Food Desert Locator, developed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service (ERS), was…

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USDA Announces Grants to Stop Hunger

By Suzanne Schreck on June 9, 2010

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced yesterday that the agency was awarding grants to end hunger in America.  

According to a press release, USDA will invest in research, planning, and other hunger-relief…

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Few Healthy Food Choices in Urban Food Deserts

By Andy Weisbecker on May 21, 2010

Residents of urban food deserts, typically low income neighborhoods, have to deal with limited healthy food choices, in addition to perhaps more obvious disadvantages of life there.  A food desert is generally defined as a…

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Gillibrand Tackles Food Deserts

By Michelle Greenhalgh on April 14, 2010

On Monday Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Representative Nydia Velazquez (D-NY) introduced legislation to combat ‘food deserts’ prevalent throughout urban and rural communities across the United States.

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