Urban Food Deserts
Articles of interest
on Food Deserts
“Does Lubbock Have Food Deserts?”: http://ramar.worldnow.com/story/39179820/one-of-the-deserts-in-the-south-plains
East Lubbock Have Less Access to Fresh Food: http://ramar.worldnow.com/story/32701975/east-lubbock-residents-have-less-access-to-fresh-produce-than-rest-of-city
Grocery Store Development in Recognized Food Deserts: https://sustainablecitycode.org/brief/grocery-store-development-in-recognized-food-deserts-3/
Lubbock Food Desert Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=19919hZnPhn97CcWfiFIE75H4oxc&ll=33.563495455377186%2C-101.8680444523926&z=13
South Plains School & Community Garden Map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1VR-a_pIJIFUrR5nAxqvlXmKn0jo&ll=33.5773929352595%2C-101.86500326243369&z=16
US Food Desert Maps: https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/03/13/174112591/how-to-find-a-food-desert-near-you
Healthy Alternative in the Lubbock Food Desert: https://www.kcbd.com/story/27957105/east-lubbock-residents-looking-to-build-healthy-alternative-in-food-desert/
Reexamining Food Deserts in the South Plains: https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/21807
Malnutrition - Obese, yet Undernourished: https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/12/23/785566796/malnutrition-hits-the-obese-as-well-as-the-underfed
Anti-Hunger Organizations by State: https://frac.org/about/1303-2
…on Active Local Organizations
South Plains Hunger Solutions: https://www.facebook.com/southplainshungersolutions/
GOAL: Provide convenient access to healthy food for all.
"Along with making the food available, you need to have food demonstrations," Reed said. "You can say, here's a bell pepper, here's how you cut it up and here's how you cut a squash."
-Debra Reed, Texas Tech Nutrition professor