Urban food deserts may not always be completely void of food access, but having many options for food around you does not always include healthy food access. For example, living within walking ...

Modified Retail Food Environment Index (mRFEI)—a national sample that measures food deserts, their study is the first of its kind to assess the relationship between experiencing food insecurity and ...

Interview highlights On what a food desert is defined as Sabina Matos: Food deserts are communities that don’t have access to ...

"The simulation project will inform how best to sequence and integrate efforts to move the needle on some of the most intractable factors shaping food deserts." The researchers know, for example, that ...

HyveGeo believes it can turn the desert green and remove carbon from the atmosphere – using biochar and microscopic algae.