Food is the essential foundation for sustainable and healthy communities. Increasing population urbanization, limited resources, complexities of interactions necessitate a comprehensive in-depth understanding dynamics global trend urbanization. The key objective this paper to characterize new environmental, social economic perspectives practices that are responsive rapidly urbanizing agricultural food system. We used sustainability paradigm in context social, outline three transitioning...

This paper aims to conceptualize the dimensions of food access enhance urban system sustainability by analyzing cause-effect interactions between five and environment using spider web diagrams illustrate their interrelationships in terms community perception objectivity. Various studies have conceptualized as a construct dimensions. new expanded view supports both objective perceived aspects values knowledge residents through community-based participatory research, thereby providing more...

Historical racial injustices as well more recent public and economic policies have culminated in the displacement of supermarkets from some central city neighborhoods. With this displacement, many low-income minority neighborhoods not only been deprived affordable healthful food, but also experienced prolonged exposure to energy-dense highly processed snack foods. Partly a consequence loss supermarkets, diet-related diseases become prevalent. Our current improve health issue address...

ABSTRACT:This study extends the intercity rent differentials investigation by CitationGilderbloom and Appelbaum (1988) in relatively independent housing markets to see how it can be replicated using U.S. census data from year 2000 against 1970 1980 models with addition of several new variables measure its impact on rents. We find that region, race, climate no longer explain as did research, while affirming a large percentage old houses small mom-and-pop landlords causes rents fall. both cost...

As the U.S. population ages, almost half of elderly householders have lived in their current home for more than 20 years, and a significant majority wish to remain residence or community as long possible they age. Concern with how communities will cope these trends has led growing interest naturally occurring retirement (NORCs), which are neighborhoods housing complexes that house concentration older adults, potential enhance efforts support aging-in-place. In this article, we examine local...

In this commentary we very briefly highlight farming- and land-related historical injustices impacting African Americans, outline useful ways for racially diverse food justice organizations, activists, academics to collaborate on place-based interventions in an equitable inclusive way. Place-based strategies address inequity the system must begin with environment within which residents can engage developing solutions. Equitable civic engagement build capacity, trust, empowerment marginalized...

This research sought to explore nutrition and related health issues of 151 households with children who participated in a survey addressing food access, security, nutrition, health, provisioning strategies, barriers optimal consumption. study explored the potential use community security strategies as tool address public concerns through increasing fruit vegetable intake by improving access affordable healthy foods. Poor diet, stress, insecurity impacts adults terms cognitive development,...

The advent of Web 2.0 created new digital platforms in which consumers, by definition, both consume and generate information. In general, people, as well platform providers, assume that information provided thousands or millions people is true objective. We challenge this assumption examining the restaurant review websites Trip Advisor Yelp context Franklin County, Ohio. Our exploratory multivariate analysis uncovers several important structural patterns certain kinds neighborhood effects,...

In recent years, scholars have studied the complex social and economic transformations of Belizean Maya livelihoods resulting from historical legacies British Spanish colonization consolidation capitalist relations. However, little research has considered how pathways through which indigenous households procure food are being transformed. This paper examines changes in over time, drawing upon results household surveys Aguacate, Belize, 1979 2019, interviews with villagers about system. We...

Community-based Participatory Research (CBPR) provides a methodology that creates mutually beneficial and equitable partnerships between researchers community people involved in positive change. Action (PAR) is rooted trust, connectivity, reciprocity to address issues actions remedy inequitable social, economic, environmental problems arising from racism structural/political imbalances. In this paper, we discuss the Health Equity Alliance of Tallahassee (HEAT) its affiliated six week...

National planning and health organizations agree that to achieve healthy sustainable food systems, planners must balance goals across a spectrum of sustainability issues include economic vitality, public health, ecological sustainability, social equity, cultural diversity. This research is an assessment government-adopted system plans in the U.S. examines which topics, three dimensions (social, environmental, economic), are included local conducts exploratory analysis asks whether community...