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Video: How We Can Nourish America’s Food Deserts

This post is brought to you by Naked Juice Across the country, 23 million Americans live in communities classified as food deserts. Though these...

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Swapping Hot Cheetos for Whole Wheat Bread: A Corner Store Redesign

In Philadelphia, the poorest and most obese big city in the nation, nearly half the kids in low-income neighborhoods shop at corner stores twice...

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Agri-tecture: Food's Next Big Movement?

Agri-tecture is a catchy new name for the intersection of architecture and agriculture which is being seen in the emerging urban farming movement.

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Change Through Food: Bringing an Oasis to the West Oakland Food Desert

Until a few years ago, West Oakland had 53 liquor stores and no grocery stores at all. The nearest real supermarket, with a full produce...

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Beyond the Food Desert: Why We Can't Get Healthy Foods in Poor Communities

Two new studies challenge the existence of "food deserts"—but the link between poverty and obesity runs deeper.

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Revamped Food Day Seeks to 'Transform the American Diet'

The goal of Food Day, which takes place today, is ambitious: to "transform the American diet," in the words of its founder.

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UN Declares Internet Access a Human Right. What Does This Really Mean?

The UN has put Internet access on its list of basic human rights. How will this symbolic act translate to policy?