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Eisenhauer, Elizabeth

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“…As white middle class families left the city for the newer suburbs, the grocery stores followed. Just as the new suburbanites and government were creating communities, supermarkets were also transforming in these new spaces [15]. Suburbs, with their residents with higher buying power, were attractive to chain supermarkets for both their markets and locations [4,16].…”

Section: The Rise Of Suburbs Supermarket Redlining and Urban Food Dementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Mergers and leveraged buy-outs in the 1980s intensified the trend toward fewer, bigger stores outside of the city. For example, in a six-year period between 1978 and 1984, Safeway closed over 600 stores in inner city neighborhoods [15]. At the same time, urban grocery stores, with their much smaller square feet design, were frequently not associated with the large chain stores.…”

Section: The Rise Of Suburbs Supermarket Redlining and Urban Food Dementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Other factors that kept large grocery stores out of urban neighbors included depopulating neighborhoods, demanding regulations, and the presence of urban crime [4]. Ultimately, the general attitude with the grocery industry has been that profits come more easily in the suburbs so it does not make financial sense to serve distressed urban areas [15].…”

Section: The Rise Of Suburbs Supermarket Redlining and Urban Food Dementioning

confidence: 99%

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

Crowe

Lacy

Columbus³

2018

Urban Science

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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, built, and economic stressors. Provided the unwillingness of supermarkets and supercenters to locate to poor urban areas and the need for nutritious, affordable food, it may be more efficient and equitable for government programs to financially partner with ethnic markets and smaller locally-owned grocery stores to increase the distribution and marketing of healthy foods rather than to spend resources trying to entice a large supermarket to locate to the neighborhood. By focusing on improving the conditions of the neighborhood and making smaller grocery stores and markets more affordable and produce more attractive to residents, the social, built, and economic stressors experienced by residents will be reduced, thereby possibly improving overall mental and physical health.

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Section: The Rise Of Suburbs Supermarket Redlining and Urban Food Dementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Rise Of Suburbs Supermarket Redlining and Urban Food Dementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Rise Of Suburbs Supermarket Redlining and Urban Food Dementioning

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

Crowe

Lacy

Columbus³

2018

Urban Science

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“…In addition, a 2012 U.S. Department of Agriculture study found that 16.4 percent of the population, or 50.1 million people, lived in food-insecure neighborhoods, and 37.6 percent of these were low-income residents (Coleman-Jensen, Nord, Andrews, & Carlson, 2012). African Americans, Hispanics, and other minority groups have higher rates of morbidity and mortality rates, and suffer disproportionately from "diseases of lifestyle" namely coronary heart disease and Type II Diabetes, than Whites (Eisenhauer, 2001;Short, Guthman, & Raskin, 2007). Obesity, for example, is 50 percent more prevalent in low-income households, which tend to be in areas that lack other amenities such as parks and full-service supermarkets (Laska, Hearst, Forsyth, Pasch, & Lytle, 2010;Morland, Diez Roux, & Wing, 2006).…”

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Valuing All Knowledges Through an Expanded Definition of Access

Usher

2015

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Historical racial injustices as well as more recent public and economic policies have culminated in the displacement of supermarkets from some central city neighborhoods. With this displacement, many low-income and minority neighborhoods not only have been deprived of affordable healthful food, but also have experienced prolonged exposure to energy-dense and highly processed snack foods. Partly as a consequence of this loss of supermarkets, diet-related diseases have become prevalent. Our current policies to improve this health issue address only objective measures of access, with little input from community residents, and they are having limited results. In response, I have reconceptualized access as a construct with five dimensions: acceptability, accessibility, accommodation, affordability, and availability. This new expanded view supports both objective and perceived aspects of access and values the knowledge of residents through community-based participatory research, thereby providing a more complete understanding of access.Keywords food access, race, five dimensions of access, grocery gap, health disparity, community-based participatory research, social determinants of health, food desert he increase in youth obesity rates and dietrelated diseases across age groups in lowincome and predominantly minority neighborhoods relative to middle-class White neighborhoods has received national attention of late

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“…The departure of supermarkets from African American neighborhoods in the U.S. -what some authors have termed "supermarket redlining" (Eisenhauer, 2002) -is not a new phenomenon and one certainly not unique to Chicago. In many cities, residential and commercial redevelopment efforts lured supermarket chains into more affluent and generally whiter neighborhoods that are the product of municipal policies to spur so-called urban renewal.…”

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Demystifying the Local: Considerations for Higher Education Engagement with Community Food Systems

Rosing

2012

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Citation: Rosing, H. (2012). Demystifying the local: Considerations for higher education engagement with community food systems. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2(4) AbstractMany universities and colleges have started to channel resources toward understanding and supporting small-scale food systems development in low-income communities. These efforts are often embedded into institutional sustainability initiatives that incorporate new curricula, research agendas, and community engagement. Students, staff, and faculty increasingly engage in community-based research, service-learning opportunities, internships, practicum and/or pro bono technical assistance in support of local food projects. These forms of engagement frequently operate in urban sectors where access to fresh food is challenged, for example, by historical patterns of racial segregation and social exclusion. Drawing on insights from ongoing anthropological research in Chicago on the role of higher education institutions in supporting community food systems development, this commentary presents a short set of considerations for higher education institutions that engage in local food projects within lowincome communities. The author suggests that prior to such engagement, academics more fully comprehend how communities perceive local and alternative food initiatives, and that higher education institutions formulate outreach initiatives that embed food systems development within a community development and social justice framework.

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Cited by 175 publications

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

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

Valuing All Knowledges Through an Expanded Definition of Access

Demystifying the Local: Considerations for Higher Education Engagement with Community Food Systems

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