I'm an editor interested in food sovereignty, food sustainability, and environmental justice.

As an environmental sciences major, I’m interested in the intersection between food systems, sustainability, and global health. I intend to edit the parent article "Food Deserts" and create a new child article titled "Food Deserts in the US".

Here is a link to the key elements of my proposal, including a description of my planned work as well as a list of annotated references I plan to use in editing and creating both articles.

Sources I plan to reference

  1. "The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts". 2009-06-02. doi:10.17226/12623.^ Alviola, Pedro A.; Nayga, Rodolfo M.; Thomsen, Michael R.; Wang, Zhongyi (2013-06-19). "Determinants of Food Deserts". American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 95 (5): 1259–1265. doi:10.1093/ajae/aat029. ISSN 0002-9092.
  2. Liddell, Jessica L.; Kington, Sarah G.; McKinley, Catherine E. (2022-10-14). ""You got to drive 30 miles to get an apple": Indigenous food sovereignty, food deserts, and changing subsistence practices in the gulf coast". SN Social Sciences. 2 (10): 232. doi:10.1007/s43545-022-00530-5. ISSN 2662-9283.
  3. Testa, Alexander; Jackson, Dylan B; Semenza, Daniel C; Vaughn, Michael G (January 2021). "Food deserts and cardiovascular health among young adults". Public Health Nutrition. 24 (1): 117–124. doi:10.1017/S1368980020001536. ISSN 1368-9800. PMC 10195490. PMID 32641177.
  4. Ver Ploeg, Michele; Breneman, Vince; Farrigan, Tracey; Hamrick, Karen; Hopkins, David; Kaufman, Phillip; Lin, Biing-Hwan; Nord, Mark; Smith, Travis A.; Williams, Ryan; Kinnison, Kelly; Olander, Carol; Singh, Anita; Tuckermanty, Elizabeth; Ver Ploeg, Michele (2009). "Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences: Report to Congress". doi:10.22004/AG.ECON.292130.
  5. Zurawski, Erica (2023-05-16). "Materializing the metaphor: Theorizing the food desert as a sociospatial–legal instrument in the production of space". Human Geography: 194277862311736. doi:10.1177/19427786231173631. ISSN 1942-7786.
  6. Block, Jason P.; Subramanian, S. V. (2015-12-08). "Moving Beyond "Food Deserts": Reorienting United States Policies to Reduce Disparities in Diet Quality". PLOS Medicine. 12 (12): e1001914. doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1001914. ISSN 1549-1676.
  7. Lawrence, Mark A; Baker, Phillip I (2019-05-29). "Ultra-processed food and adverse health outcomes". BMJ: l2289. doi:10.1136/bmj.l2289. ISSN 0959-8138.
  8. Battersby, Jane; Crush, Jonathan (2014-06-01). "Africa's Urban Food Deserts". Urban Forum. 25 (2): 143–151. doi:10.1007/s12132-014-9225-5. ISSN 1874-6330.
  9. Battersby, Jane (June 2012). "Beyond the food desert: finding ways to speak about urban food security in south africa". Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. 94 (2): 141–159. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0467.2012.00401.x. ISSN 0435-3684.
  10. Sadler, Richard Casey; Gilliland, Jason Andrew; Arku, Godwin (June 2016). "Theoretical issues in the 'food desert' debate and ways forward". GeoJournal. 81 (3): 443–455. doi:10.1007/s10708-015-9634-6. ISSN 0343-2521.
  11. Mc Carthy, Ultan; Uysal, Ismail; Badia-Melis, Ricardo; Mercier, Samuel; O'Donnell, Colm; Ktenioudaki, Anastasia (July 2018). "Global food security – Issues, challenges and technological solutions". Trends in Food Science & Technology. 77: 11–20. doi:10.1016/j.tifs.2018.05.002.
  12. Camp, Nadine L. (2015-08-15). "Food insecurity and food deserts". The Nurse Practitioner. 40 (8): 32–36. doi:10.1097/01.NPR.0000453644.36533.3a. ISSN 0361-1817.
  13. Widener, Michael J. (September 2018). "Spatial access to food: Retiring the food desert metaphor". Physiology & Behavior. 193: 257–260. doi:10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.02.032.
  14. Walker, Renee E.; Keane, Christopher R.; Burke, Jessica G. (September 2010). "Disparities and access to healthy food in the United States: A review of food deserts literature". Health & Place. 16 (5): 876–884. doi:10.1016/j.healthplace.2010.04.013.
  15. "Urban Food Deserts in Japan" (PDF). SpringerLink. doi:10.1007/978-981-16-0893-3.pdf.
  16. Wrigley, Neil (October 2002). "'Food Deserts' in British Cities: Policy Context and Research Priorities". Urban Studies. 39 (11): 2029–2040. doi:10.1080/0042098022000011344. ISSN 0042-0980.