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 ...

People living in these food deserts rely on convenience stores or fast food options, which often cost more and offer less nutritious options, to feed their families. Food deserts ...

These findings counter the common notion that policies to reduce supply inequities, such as “food deserts,” could play an important role in reducing nutritional inequality. By contrast, the structural ...

Food insecurity and living in food deserts—areas with limited access to affordable, nutritious food—are linked to later-stage cancer diagnoses and worse survival rates, according to recent ...