When I was researching 'Food Deserts' two years ago...

Two years ago, when I was writing my paper on Food Deserts, information was scattered. You had to search keywords like 'food accessibility,' and 'urban food issues.' Now when I search for it, look what I find:

Top 6 results
1) http://www.fooddesert.net/
A site that brings together the top articles and sources regarding food deserts, along with highlighting Mari Gallagher breakthrough research done in Chicago. It hasn't been updated since November, but it is still a solid starting point.


2) http://www.cdc.gov/Features/FoodDeserts/
Yay for the Center of Disease Control for recognizing Food Deserts as being a problem. They are not necessarily a disease....more of a circumstance that has been caused my external socio-economic factors and the issues pertaining to the food system structure in the United States....but at least the site contributes to awareness and features the United States 2009 report on Food Deserts.

3) http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1900947,00.html
The 2009 Time Magazine article by Steven Gray that does a great job of contextualizing the Chicago deserts and then looking at the issue from a national standpoint.

4) http://www.marketmakeovers.org/node/147
A media intensive look at the Food Deserts in Southern Los Angeles. Plenty of videos to go around. Market Makeovers is a great website for the local South LA population and can shows how a group of people can go about fighting food accessibility problems at a grass root level. This site also is a hot link for connecting into the online Food Deserts blog and site network.

5) http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/AP/AP036/
The 2009 report on Food Deserts by the United States Department of Agriculture. A dense report for those rainy nights.

6) http://www.yaleruddcenter.org/resources/upload/docs/what/policy/ChicagoFoodDesertReport.pdf
My favorite, Mari Gallagher's groundbreaking report on Chicago Food Deserts. It is important to make a distinction between the United States and European research, as Europe has been aware and doing research on food accessibility problems many years before the US. A must read!