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Byline: Thomas Baxter Across communities in the United States, millions of Americans struggle with access to affordable, nutritious food, and the University is no exception. Long distances to supermarkets, coupled [...]

The Illinois Grocery Initiative , a program launched by the Illinois government, addresses food deserts in the state by providing grants to areas and business owners interested in establishing sustainable [...]

Byline: Marco Flores A local nonprofit organization is looking to use a mobile grocery store to combat food insecurity in Binghamton. Greater Good Grocery, a grocery store located on Binghamton's [...]

Byline: Diego Perdomo Two days of sleepless nights and contractions every 15 minutes are what Scott Darius and his wife experienced before they were finally inducted into UF Health Shands [...]

Byline: Diego Perdomo Two days of sleepless nights and contractions every 15 minutes are what Scott Darius and his wife experienced before they were finally inducted into UF Health Shands [...]

Photo courtesy of The Food Trust A key component of public health is having access to nutritious, inexpensive food. In response, a Florida lawmaker has filed SB 112, the Healthy [...]

Byline: Taylor HeckartMatthew Schmitz It's no secret that UAA is lacking in on-campus food options. In an informal online poll conducted by The Northern Light, 66% of respondents reported that [...]

Now that spring is finally upon us, citizens of Bloomington-Normal can spend more time outside. For those who have a green thumb but no garden at home, there is an [...]

Washburn is located at 1700 SW College Ave. The closest grocery store to the university is 35 minutes away on foot. It can be difficult for students, especially international students, [...]

Byline: Rebecca ChoJeannie Kim 'If you live near a grocery store but you can't afford to shop there, then it doesn't matter that you're not in a food desert. You're [...]

On a stroll through Boston Common, one can revel in the rich history the city has to offer. Yet, not everything is positive: Redlining, a historical racist zoning practice, still [...]

NC Central University's 104th Commencement speaker has a familiar message for graduating Eagles this weekend, and it's one that never gets old: Believe in yourself. 'You can enter any environment,' [...]

Byline: Emily O'Reilly 'Food desert' is a term used to describe areas where access to healthy and affordable food is limited. Rural and minority communities are disproportionately impacted by food [...]

Byline: Taylor Isaac Desolate and barren, the curved backroads of the Tri-State can leave drivers traveling miles without any sign of life. The only oasis for human interaction is a [...]

Byline: Tyler Richey MUNCIE, Ind.---The Whitely Community Council hosted its monthly food pantry Thursday to provide goods to the Whitely neighborhood and communities nearby. Most of the neighborhood is in [...]

Byline: Trevor Weinstock Pitt's dining halls and eateries contribute to the 22 million pounds of food wasted each year on college campuses across the country, but Pitt Food Recovery Heroes [...]

Food insecurity and food deserts continue to affect people throughout the state, and in high proportions in Madison and Milwaukee. One in 14 Wisconsinites currently face food concerns, according to [...]

Byline: Sarah Eichstadt The owner of Luna's Groceries plans to tackle another food desert in Dane County. Before Mariam Maldonado opened Luna's Groceries in 2019, the Allied Drive neighborhood of [...]

Byline: Maia Irvin University of Minnesota students and faculty from the Food, Science and Nutrition Department have been recently discussing the food desert on campus and reviewing current University programs [...]

Byline: Olivia Macaulay The fourth full-service grocery store to open east of the Anacostia River, the first in over a decade, recently welcomed its first customers last week. The stores [...]

Byline: Caroline McCullough Lecture series focuses on food equity, sustainability The University of Rhode Island's Fall 2022 Honors Colloquium will focus on food, food insecurity and equity-based solutions to problems [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has doled out $22.6 million to help grocery stores, online food delivery services and farmers markets in 'underserved communities' across the country. The federal spending [...]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has doled out $22.6 million to help grocery stores, online food delivery services and farmers markets in 'underserved communities' across the country. The federal spending [...]

The Emory Wheel/Aisha Tunkara Going 80 miles per hour in a zone where the speed limit was 25 miles per hour helped me to conceptualize the vast emptiness of Selma's [...]

Byline: Sophia Meador You might remember strolling past empty shelves of cream cheese, pet food, and canned goods during the nationwide supply chain shortages in January. If you thought that [...]

(The Center Square) - A bill that would award state tax credits for establishing urban farms in Missouri food deserts and creating an outreach program in those areas received bipartisan [...]

JEFFERSON CITY â Fatimah Muhammad lives in the Hyde Park neighborhood of St. Louis, which experts have said is a food desert â an urban area lacking access to good-quality [...]

Carmen Dianne and Kara Still co-founded Prosperity Market to support and connect Black small businesses and communities in need. (Photo courtesy of Kara Still) The return of the Trojan Farmers [...]

Byline: Justin Mojica, Staff Writer Photo provided by Ryan Reish Illinois Wesleyan University is home to an eclectic group of registered student organizations, enough for anybody to feel welcome somewhere. [...]

Byline: Megan Fu This post was updated Feb. 23 at 10:05 p.m. South LA Cafe is serving up coffee, community and connection. A Black-owned, woman-owned and family-owned business, the cafe [...]

Byline: Jack Portman Wake Forest University moved its campus to Winston-Salem in 1946. During the 1940s, and continuing into the 1960s, redlining and other explicitly racist public policies significantly augmented [...]

Byline: Eva Lynch Image courtesy of WAMU If you are a Catholic University student who at some point has had to cook a meal for yourself, chances are you have [...]

Byline: Eva Lynch Image courtesy of WAMU If you are a Catholic University student who at some point has had to cook a meal for yourself, chances are you have [...]

Byline: Paige Kupas A new grocery store in Ward 8 opened last week as part of a program to alleviate food deserts in Washington, D.C. neighborhoods. Good Food Markets | [...]

Wake Forest University is less than four miles from East Winston, one of the most food-insecure regions of Winston-Salem. Even still, only a handful of Wake Forest students volunteer at [...]

Byline: Angela Yu The word 'desert' brings to mind barren landscapes devoid of life -- an image many consider the complete opposite of Washington, D.C.'s bustling streets and vibrant communities. [...]

Byline: Mark Kuo A perplexing phenomenon afflicts residents of Washington, D.C. -- despite its metropolitan area's high median incomes, 10.6% of District residents regularly experience food insecurity, close to the [...]

ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 11, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The National Council on Aging , the national voice for every person's right to age well, has completed a successful pilot program that [...]

A report issued by the United States Department of Agriculture in 2020 found that 10.5% of American households were 'food insecure.' The report also detailed that 7.6% of households with [...]

Byline: Sasha Tuddenham A chocolate croissant from Kelly's Bakery. Source: Caitlin Whitting '24 Prospective students at Marist all ask a common question: How is the food? Every student has a [...]

Byline: Lee Beaudrot Once a week, I walk 1.3 miles to the nearest grocery store in the sweltering heat of the Florida Summer. I do not own a car, and [...]

Dining hours for the summer semester are severely limited, harming students who stay on campus and bringing SIUE dangerously close to becoming a food desert. According to the Food Empowerment [...]

Over 270 off-campus apartments received free organic produce through a partnership between Student Government and nonprofit Star Farm Chicago, which practices community-supported agriculture . The effort was led by fourth-year [...]

Byline: Emma Paisley Shultz At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, grocery stores were left barren as people scrambled to buy as many toilet paper rolls and nonperishable foods as [...]

Byline: Alex Fulton This week, the Missourian reported on Bird scooters returning to Columbia, a Missouri Senate bill to address food deserts and a local MMA fighter. Did you follow [...]

Byline: Grace Noteboom/Missourian JEFFERSON CITY -- From the windows of her small business on the north side of St. Louis, Karen Greer often sees elderly residents from the nearby senior [...]

Byline: Janet ChavarriaLola AjetunmobiSean Davis If this pandemic has taught us anything, it's the importance of healthy living and healthy eating. Yet access to fresh produce and healthier food isn't [...]

Byline: Sarah Watson D.C. has an alternate geography hidden to its visitors. Beneath the national monuments, city blocks, historic neighborhoods, and federal buildings lies a map of food deserts, segregation, [...]

Byline: Max Pickart Atlanta, Georgia recently developed the nation's largest food forest, which is an area of forest that mimics nature in order to provide sustainable food sources, ultimately addressing [...]