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TY - GEN
T1 - How to identify food deserts in Amazonian cities?
AU - Davies, Gemma
AU - Frausin Bustamante, Gina Giovanna
AU - Parry, Luke Thomas Wyn
PY - 2016/4/1
Y1 - 2016/4/1
N2 - Food deserts are areas without affordable access to healthy foods. This paper explores whether food deserts are present within urban areas of the Brazilian Amazon. The availability and price of a variety of food products was surveyed in a total of 304 shops, across 3 cities in 2015. Least-cost distances were calculated to estimate travel distance to access products, with map overlay used to help identify areas with poor access to a variety of healthy food - these were defined as food deserts.
AB - Food deserts are areas without affordable access to healthy foods. This paper explores whether food deserts are present within urban areas of the Brazilian Amazon. The availability and price of a variety of food products was surveyed in a total of 304 shops, across 3 cities in 2015. Least-cost distances were calculated to estimate travel distance to access products, with map overlay used to help identify areas with poor access to a variety of healthy food - these were defined as food deserts.
KW - food desert
KW - food security
KW - vulnerability
KW - poverty
KW - Amazonia
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
BT - Proceedings of the GIS Research UK 24th Annual Conference GISRUK 2016
CY - London
ER -