Food Access

the front of a walmart supercenter

Walmart’s Super-Sized Impact on the Food System

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07.12.19

Recovering potatoes for Food Forward (Photo © Eron Rauch)

A New Produce Warehouse in Los Angeles Will Prevent Millions of Pounds of Food Waste

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06.27.19

person shopping in a grocery store

After a Decade of Food Access Work, Are People Eating Any Healthier?

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06.04.19

people standing in line for food

Where Do Food Banks Fit in to the Fight for a Green New Deal?

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05.16.19

SNAP is Going Online. Will the Term ‘Food Desert’ Soon Be Obsolete?

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05.01.19

melony samuels in a hoop house providing food for Brooklyn residents

Meet the Woman Helping Change the Way Brooklyn Eats

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03.21.19

woman cooking in the kitchen

More Time in the Kitchen May Not Be the Answer to Feeding Kids Well

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03.01.19

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