food desert
English
editEtymology
editA report by Cummins and Macintyre states that a resident of public housing in western Scotland supposedly coined the more specific phrase "food desert" in the early 1990s.[1] The phrase was first officially used in a 1995 document from a policy working group on the Low Income Project Team of the UK's Nutrition Task Force.[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fuːd ˈdɛzə(ɹ)t/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fud ˈdɛzɚt/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Hyphenation: food de‧sert
Noun
editfood desert (plural food deserts)
- A populated region where food, especially healthy food, is difficult to obtain. [from early 1990s]
- 2009 May 26, Steven Gray, “Can America's urban food deserts bloom?”, in Time[1], archived from the original on 28 January 2016:
- For years, major supermarket chains have been criticized for abandoning densely populated, largely black and Latino communities in cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis and Newark, N.J. — contributing to what many experts call food deserts.
- 2011 August 12, “America's ‘food deserts’”, in The Week[2], archived from the original on 28 May 2016:
- More precisely, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines a food desert as any census district where at least 20 percent of the inhabitants are below the poverty line and 33 percent live over a mile from the nearest supermarket (or in rural areas, more than 10 miles).
- 2012 October 5, Judy Valente, “Food Deserts”, in Religion & Ethics Newsweekly, PBS[3], archived from the original on 10 September 2016:
- New Orleans' Ninth Ward is what the U.S. Department of Agriculture calls a "food desert." Food deserts are communities with little or no access to healthy food.
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editReferences
editFurther reading
edit- food desert on Wikipedia.Wikipedia