Rural Food Deserts: Low-income Perspectives on Food Access in Minnesota and Iowa

Smith, Chery; Morton, Lois Wright

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2008.06.008

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“…Physical and social environments affect food access. In rural areas, there is less access, in both a physical and economic sense, to the mainstream food system that supplies urban areas (Smith & Morton, 2009). Rural low-income households have more frequent nonmarket food exchanges than urban low-income households, and small-scale food production is the most economical way to provide healthy food in rural environments (Morton, Bitto, Oakland, & Sand, 2008).…”

Section: Educationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This one-size-fits-all regulatory approach designed for large-scale production makes it difficult for small-scale producers to comply with standards. Seed (2011) refers to the issue of scale, in terms of regulation standardization, as a subject of power. According to Dahlberg (2001), standardization allows for a structurally simple, and therefore more easily dominated, society.…”

Section: Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Food Safety and Food Security: Mapping Relationships

Martin

Perkin

2016

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Food safety regulations designed for industrialscale food producers can create insurmountable challenges when applied to small-scale food producers. These challenges can make for a frustrating environment for food consumers, producers, and regulators, at times leading to tensions between food producers and people working in food safety. The objective of this study was to identify ways to reduce these tensions and promote intersectoral collaboration. We used concept mapping, a structured, participatory, mixed-method approach, to solicit ideas and synthesize input from those working in food safety and food security. We sent invitations to 96 individuals working in food safety or food security, and 50 completed the online concept mapping. Twenty-three participated in categorizing and ranking all the resulting statements. The findings were 'mapped' into six clusters: (1) communicating, (2) understanding intent, (3) educating, (4) understanding risk and regulation, (5) recognizing scale, and (6) enhancing partnerships. We further reduced these six clusters into three categories: "relationships," "education," and "context." Although there are no quick or easy ways to ease tensions between those working in food safety and food security, we suggest four practical ways to ease tensions to ensure safe and accessible food: (1) a collaborative group at a high regulatory level that shares authority is needed; (2) building relationships across disciplines should be considered as part of public health work; (3) regulatory documents should be written in plain language; and (4) food safety regulations should account for differences in scale of production with supportive resourcing.

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Section: Educationmentioning

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Section: Contextmentioning

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Food Safety and Food Security: Mapping Relationships

Martin

Perkin

2016

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“…The unavailability or high price of produce may result in reliance by lowincome people on inexpensive, storable food sources. Participants may make choices at the grocery store based on cost rather than healthfulness (Smith and Morton 2009). To counteract the lack of access to quality, affordable food for low-income populations, encouraging supermarkets to locate in food-insecure neighborhoods and creating community gardens and farmers' markets may be solutions (Winne 2008).…”

Section: Hunger and Food Insecuritymentioning

confidence: 99%

How Does Your Garden Grow? Environmental Justice Aspects of Community Gardens

McIlvaine-Newsad¹,

Porter²

2013

JEA

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“…Equally problematic, the few food retailers located in rural communities tend to offer fewer and often more expensive healthier options (Liese, Weis, Pluto, Smith, & Lawson, 2007;O'Connell, Buchwald, & Duncan, 2011). Not surprisingly, a number of studies find rural residents overcome significant transportation hurdles to access healthy, affordable foods, including longer, more expensive commutes, and higher transportation costs Jilcott, Moore, Wall-Bassett, Liu, & Saelens, 2011;Sharkey, Horel, Han, & Huber, 2009;Smith & Morton, 2009;Yousefian, Leighton, Fox, & Hartley, 2011). Research also commonly characterizes rural food environments as complex systems encompassing a variety of traditional and nontraditional sources, including but not limited to retail food outlets; farm-to-consumer outlets; mass merchandisers; flea markets; fast-food restaurants and/or convenience stores nested within gas stations; gardening; hunting; and reliance on neighbors (Dean, Sharkey, & St. John, 2011;Sharkey, Dean, & Johnson, 2012;Sharkey, Johnson, Dean, & Horel, 2011;Valdez, Dean, & Sharkey, 2012;Van Hoesen, Bunkley, & Currier, 2013;Wegener & Hanning, 2010;Yousefian et al, 2011).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%