The first six open Thursday in Southern California, with eight more to ... such as South L.A. Researchers call these high-poverty areas “food deserts” -- that is, places where the heavily ...

Increased need for food help has been seen particularly recently in light of California wildfires in ... The USDA has defined a “food desert,” an urban area without easy access to nearby ...

Here's How The Central Valley of California is said to produce half ... your ad-blocker to allow ads on Grist. Here's How “Food deserts” are a well-documented phenomena in urban areas like ...

Map the Meal Gap study finds that in the Coachella Valley desert region, the food insecurity rate is more than 15%. This translates into approximately one in six people being at risk of wondering ...

The term "food desert" describes this concern ... We used other data sets (online business directories, store locators and Google maps) to plot the locations of food outlets and make an initial ...

Filipinotown is a food desert, a neighborhood high in fast-food ... warmer and the rain falls harder in the Philippines than in California, which makes it difficult to grow native Filipino produce ...

This is the Seva Collective food pantry in Santa Ana, California, a food desert — a geographic area where residents struggle to consistently access nutritious food. Born in a crucial time of ...

Nearly 24 million Americans live in food deserts, low-income neighborhoods with no access to affordable, fresh, healthy food. As a result, people who live in these areas often have poor diets that ...