Food Access

Volunteers plant a small ornamental garden at the corner of a newly cleaned vacant lot in Philadelphia.

How Urban Agriculture Can Improve Food Security

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02.14.19
Outside a Dollar General in Fort Hancock, Texas. (Photo credit: Thomas Hawk)

Dollar Stores Are Taking Over the Grocery Business, and It’s Bad News for Public Health and Local Economies

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12.17.18
Shopping in the Inglewood Grocery Outlet after it was awarded the UPAS Store of Excellence Award. (Photo courtesy of UPAS)

This Community is Addressing Food Insecurity, One Grocery Store at a Time

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10.22.18
Chef Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz driving “the mutton,” or the Mobile Unit for Training and Nutrition (MUTN). Photo courtesy of Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz.

How the Navajo Nation Is Reclaiming Food Sovereignty

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10.17.18
food bank worker moving a pallet of food donations

The Hot Cereal Company Using Buy-One-Give-One to Fight Food Insecurity

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10.12.18

Olympia Auset is Tackling Systemic Racism, One Vegetable at a Time

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09.28.18
Detail of the redlined map of Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham’s ‘Food Deserts’ Have Been Shaped by its Redlined Past

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09.26.18
woman foraging for edible weeds

Can Urban Soil Offer Edible Weeds Fit for Foraging?

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09.21.18
graphic of people standing in a food desert

The Hidden Resilience of ‘Food Desert’ Neighborhoods

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09.14.18
Sacramento's Soil Born Farms. (Photo CC-licensed by Annie & John)

Sacramento Is Making Urban Agriculture a Way of Life

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09.12.18
man shopping at a kanbe's market box

Kanbe’s Markets and the Movement to Bring Groceries to a Gas Station Near You

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07.26.18
young entrepreneurs making hot sauce

In Camden, a Hot Sauce is Helping Young Urban Entrepreneurs Fight Poverty

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07.24.18
detroit and snap

Detroit Shows How Cuts to SNAP Affect an Entire Community

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07.19.18
the town of Utqiagvik, Alaska

In Alaska, Changes to SNAP Could Spell Disaster

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07.17.18
Photo © Becky Ruppel Photography

Libraries are Bridging the Summer Gap for Hungry Kids

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06.05.18
Francesca Chaney in front of Sol Sips, her vegan cafe in Brooklyn. (Photo courtesy Sol Sips)

The Entrepreneur Making Healthy Food Accessible to Her Brooklyn Neighborhood

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05.18.18

In the Arizona Desert, Tucson Models Affordable Food Access

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04.04.18
Will Allen in a Growing Power greenhouse. (Photo credit: Growing Power)

Behind the Rise and Fall of Growing Power

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03.13.18