food desert

Russian translation: Продовольственная пустыня

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00:56 Sep 18, 2020

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Additional field(s): Food & Drink, Government / Politics, Nutrition, Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.

English term or phrase: food desert

Definition from Cambridge Blog:
An area where there is little or no access to healthy food.

Example sentence(s):

These are also the groups most likely to live in food deserts, and researchers have established a strong correlation between food insecurity and increased diabetes rates. One study of Chicago neighborhoods found the death rate from diabetes in food deserts to be twice that of areas offering access to grocery stores, [14] while another conducted in California found that adults ages 50 and over from black and brown communities had double the diabetes rate of whites from the same age demographic. Food Is Power
Educating those in the community or tract of the food desert can help make changes, such as growing their own food and working with local convenience stores to sell healthier food options. Public awareness of food deserts can lead to healthy discourse and may even lead to ideas about how to end food deserts in America once and for all. Gardening Know-how
The key to getting food into food deserts is to make it as easy as possible for people to access fresh, healthy food. Shareable

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Russian translation:Продовольственная пустыня

Definition:
Продовольственная пустыня, «food desert» – научная метафора, которая отражает нарушение доступа населения к экономически приемлемому для него и качественному продовольствию в пространственно-географическом аспекте.

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Продовольственная пустыня

Definition from Вестник евразийской н:
Продовольственная пустыня, «food desert» – научная метафора, которая отражает нарушение доступа населения к экономически приемлемому для него и качественному продовольствию в пространственно-географическом аспекте.

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Продовольственные пустыни, как правило, населены малообеспеченными жителями с ограниченной подвижностью; это делает их менее привлекательным рынком для крупных сетей супермаркетов. - Википедия
Расширение городской территории приводит к появлению так называемых «продовольственных пустынь» в мегаполисах по всей территории США. К такому выводу пришли ученые, опубликовавшие исследование в Urban Studies Journal. - Гуманитарные науки

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