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English
Etymology
A 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]
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Noun
food desert (plural food deserts)
- A populated region where food, especially healthy food, is difficult to obtain.
2009 May 26, Steven Gray, “Can America's urban food deserts bloom?”, in Time, 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, 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).
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cummins, S, MacIntyre, S (2002) “'Food deserts'—evidence and assumption in health policy making”, in BMJ, volume 325, number 7361, →DOI, pages 436–438
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