Barriers to Food Security and Community Stress in an Urban Food Desert

By analyzing data from focus groups in a poor, mostly African American neighborhood in a large U.S. city, we describe how residents in urban food deserts access food, the barriers they experience in accessing nutritious, affordable food, and how community food insecurity exacerbates prior social, bu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jessica Crowe, Constance Lacy, Yolanda Columbus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2018-05-01
Series:Urban Science
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/2413-8851/2/2/46