User:Cd631874/Food desert/Bibliography

Description of my planned work:

In order to address the inconsistencies in information (such as the proposed causes of food deserts) and lack of a global perspective on food deserts in the parent article "Food Deserts", I would like to revise the parent article to include more global theories and definitions of food deserts that address food deserts as a global issue without implying it is a problem in every country. Likewise, I’d like to create a new article on food deserts in the US, and move a majority of the content in the current version of the parent article over into the new article. Within the new article, I plan to add to the “History” section of the article to outline the proposed theories on how food deserts emerged in the US as a result of systemic inequalities and unfair policies. There are also some more minor edits I’d like to make to the existing article’s content. Please let me know if you all have any suggestions, comments, questions, or concerns.

Bibliography

Key Proposal Elements

• "The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts". 2009-06-02. doi:10.17226/12623.^ Alviola, Pedro A.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Thomsen, Michael R.; Wang, Zhongyi (2013-06-19). "Determinants of Food Deserts". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 95 (5): 1259–1265. doi:10.1093/ajae/aat029. ISSN 0002-9092.
  • This source is a summary of a workshop on the community health effects of food deserts in the US Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC). This source will provide reliable information on some of the public health effects residents living in food deserts face.

• Liddell, Jessica L.; Kington, Sarah G.; McKinley, Catherine E. (2022-10-14). ""You got to drive 30 miles to get an apple": Indigenous food sovereignty, food deserts, and changing subsistence practices in the gulf coast". SN Social Sciences. 2 (10): 232. doi:10.1007/s43545-022-00530-5. ISSN 2662-9283.

• • This article is a qualitative descriptive research study that highlights some causes of food deserts and food insecurity in one of America’s indigenous communities. This study will provide some proposed causes behind the development of food deserts in the US and the social justice issues that indigenous communities face as a result of their weakened food sovereignty.

• Testa, Alexander; Jackson, Dylan B; Semenza, Daniel C; Vaughn, Michael G (January 2021). "Food deserts and cardiovascular health among young adults". Public Health Nutrition. 24 (1): 117–124. doi:10.1017/S1368980020001536. ISSN 1368-9800. PMC 10195490. PMID 32641177.

• • This journal article outlines a study of the links between living in a food desert and young adults’ cardiovascular health. The results of this study will be useful in outlining some of the observed public health impacts of food deserts
• Ver Ploeg, Michele; Breneman, Vince; Farrigan, Tracey; Hamrick, Karen; Hopkins, David; Kaufman, Phillip; Lin, Biing-Hwan; Nord, Mark; Smith, Travis A.; Williams, Ryan; Kinnison, Kelly; Olander, Carol; Singh, Anita; Tuckermanty, Elizabeth; Ver Ploeg, Michele (2009). "Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences: Report to Congress". doi:10.22004/AG.ECON.292130.
  • This source outlines a study conducted by the US Department of Agriculture to identify the degree to which people have lowered access to healthy and affordable foods; characteristics and causes of food deserts; the consequences of limited food access on populations; and the effectiveness of existing measures and policies to increase food access. This study will provide useful information on proposed causes and definitons of food deserts as well as the reprucussions of food deserts for different populations.
• Zurawski, Erica (2023-05-16). "Materializing the metaphor: Theorizing the food desert as a sociospatial–legal instrument in the production of space". Human Geography: 194277862311736. doi:10.1177/19427786231173631. ISSN 1942-7786.
  • This scholarly article offers perspectives on the shortcomings of the concepts of food deserts and the way governments and policies approach this concept. I will highlight this different perspective in the section “Alternate frameworks for food deserts”.

• Block, Jason P.; Subramanian, S. V. (2015-12-08). "Moving Beyond "Food Deserts": Reorienting United States Policies to Reduce Disparities in Diet Quality". PLOS Medicine. 12 (12): e1001914. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001914. ISSN 1549-1676.
  • This scholarly article provides another framework for addressing the nutrition and health problems that plague Americans today through policy and government iniatives beyond the traditional food deserts model used. I will add this perspective to the “Alternate frameworks for food deserts” section.
• Lawrence, Mark A; Baker, Phillip I (2019-05-29). "Ultra-processed food and adverse health outcomes". BMJ: l2289. doi:10.1136/bmj.l2289. ISSN 0959-8138.
  • This study highlights the correlation between the consumption of ultra-processed foods and negative health outcomes. Because a high proportion of foods typically available in food deserts are ultra-processed foods, this study will provide further insight into the negative effects of food deserts on their residents.
• Battersby, Jane; Crush, Jonathan (2014-06-01). "Africa's Urban Food Deserts". Urban Forum. 25 (2): 143–151. doi:10.1007/s12132-014-9225-5. ISSN 1874-6330.
  • This scholarly article highlights the nuances in labeling an area in developing countries with low food access and high levels of food insecurity a food desert compared with what is considered a food desert in the US. The perspectives outlined in this article will help me provide proposed distinctions between food deserts and areas across the world that don’t necessarily fit the framework of food deserts.
• Battersby, Jane (June 2012). "Beyond the food desert: finding ways to speak about urban food security in south africa". Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 94 (2): 141–159. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0467.2012.00401.x. ISSN 0435-3684.
  • This article provides a new framework for understanding and assessing food security levels in urban communities by examining communities within South Africa. Similar to the preceding article, this source will allow me to outline differeing perspectives and frameworks on the concept of a food desert and food security in the parent article.
• Sadler, Richard Casey; Gilliland, Jason Andrew; Arku, Godwin (June 2016). "Theoretical issues in the 'food desert' debate and ways forward". GeoJournal. 81 (3): 443–455. doi:10.1007/s10708-015-9634-6. ISSN 0343-2521.
  • This academic article provides an alternative approach to the concept of food deserts by highlighting the shortcomings of the concept. The perspectives outlined in this article will allow me to add information regarding challenges to the idea of a food desert in the parent article.
• Mc Carthy, Ultan; Uysal, Ismail; Badia-Melis, Ricardo; Mercier, Samuel; O'Donnell, Colm; Ktenioudaki, Anastasia (July 2018). "Global food security – Issues, challenges and technological solutions". Trends in Food Science & Technology. 77: 11–20. doi:10.1016/j.tifs.2018.05.002.
  • This scholarly article outlines the current state of global food security, challenges communities around the world face in maintaining and strengthening food security, and proposed solutions to combating food insecurity. Because increased food insecurity levels are characteristic of food deserts, I intend to provide a more global perspective on food security levels around the world and how food deserts play a role in influencing them.
• Widener, Michael J. (September 2018). "Spatial access to food: Retiring the food desert metaphor". Physiology & Behavior. 193: 257–260. doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.02.032.
  • This source challenges the current concept of a food desert and highlights the problems with the current metaphor in examining food access and developing appropriate solutions to communities’ food security and access-related challenges. I will use this source to provide scholars’ alternative perspectives to the concept of food deserts.
• Walker, Renee E.; Keane, Christopher R.; Burke, Jessica G. (September 2010). "Disparities and access to healthy food in the United States: A review of food deserts literature". Health & Place. 16 (5): 876–884. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.04.013.
  • This scholarly article is a systemic review of 31 studies that focused on food access and food deserts in the US. I will use the results summarized in the study to improve the breadth and coverage of the existing content focused on US food deserts (that I will move from the parent article to a new child article).
• Urban Food Deserts in Japan" (PDF). SpringerLink. doi:10.1007/978-981-16-0893-3.pdf.
  • This book highlights problems in the approach of food deserts in creating policy to combat Japan’s elderly people’s lower access to food. The findings and discussions highlighted in this book will both provide alternative frameworks for food deserts that I can highlight in the parent article as well as provide insight into areas of low food access in a different country than the US.
• Wrigley, Neil (October 2002). "'Food Deserts' in British Cities: Policy Context and Research Priorities". Urban Studies. 39 (11): 2029–2040. doi:10.1080/0042098022000011344. ISSN 0042-0980.
  • This study highlights the research and policies conducted by the British government in response to the growing issue of lower food access in British cities. This study will provide another international perspective on food deserts that contribute to a more global, holistic perspective of food deserts in the parent article.

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