Hers explores what food deserts are, how they get that way, and how you can take action-whether you live in one or not.

In 2016, an estimated 15.6 million households (12.3 percent) were food insecure. Food deserts are geographic areas where residents do not have access to supermarkets or grocery stores. Using a ...

(Food deserts were not, by the way, a consequence of suburbanization and white flight, as some observers have suggested. By 1970, more Americans already lived in suburbs than in cities.

An example of food insecurity or lack of food access? The Statesman spoke to professors and local policy leaders to understand what we know and don’t know about Del Valle’s relationship to food.

Discover the hidden connection between food deserts and digestive problems, from gut bacteria imbalance to chronic inflammation affecting millions.

This is another example of one of Knoxville's food deserts. Harbs Market shopper, Debrina Penn said she sometimes will stop there instead of a grocery store for time's sake.

Some federal lawmakers are working to address food deserts, and they want to incentivize more businesses that offer healthy ...

Others face "food desert" conditions because they travel farther to buy food, sometimes without transportation. Neighbors who live near the closed Kroger store in Murfreesboro, for example, reside in ...

The USDA has traditionally defined an urban food desert as an area located more than a mile from a supermarket or large grocery store and where more than 1 in 5 people live below the poverty line.

Philemon Brown, who is a board member at Community Hands of Central Texas, has been pushing to try and gauge interest about ...

News. McKinney has largest food desert in one of Texas’ wealthiest counties The need in the area has been overshadowed by the overall wealth.