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Real Food Deserts and the Need for Urban
Agriculture
by: Julia Lang
Intro/ History:
How did we get to our current food
landscape?
• -Industrial Revolution:
– People leave the farm for
industry
– Dawn of industrial
agriculture
• -Urbanizing Population
– World population
urbanizing:
– In the year 2000 we
reached over 50% of the
world’s population living in
urban areas.
Current Society:
• Now that we are mostly in
cities, where does our
food come from?
– Agro-business
– Other countries
– Food manufacturing
corporations
I just want my food to come
from the ground, preferably
near to me : (
Grounds: What’s the Problem?
• Grounds:
• Urban populations living in
areas labeled as food deserts.
DEF: Food Desert: a district
with little or no access to foods
needed to maintain a Healthy
Diet.
• “access” can be seen as
physical, financial or Food
Desert: ( play video 3:32)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch
?v=F_bTceBbjIU&feature=relat
ed
Lack of Access to Real Food: Stats
• Like Oakland, San Jose has similar spatial
mismatch when it comes to people and food.
• According to the Santa Clara Health Profile of
2010
• “fresh fruits and vegetables are geographically
difficult compared to access to fast food. There
are only 27 farmers’ markets and 35 produce
stores in Santa Clara County compared to 918
fast food, pizza, and sandwich stores.”
Local Repercussions: Stats
• In Santa Clara County:
• 55% of adults overweight
• In 2007-08, 25% of
middle and high school
students overweight or
obese
• Obesity, Heart Disease, &
Diabetes >in low income,
minority, and less
educated populations.
Warrants: Why should we try to
change this?
• -Clearly our most
disenfranchised
populations are paying
the price for lack of
access to food, and the
price is their health.
• - The need for social
change is clear when
people’s well being and
even mortality are at
stake.
Conclusion/Solution: It’s not
Hopeless!
• There are tons of awesome projects
replenishing food deserts with local, sustainable,
and accessible produce!
• All throughout the Bay Area, and even right here
in San Jose there are urban agriculture projects
Take Action
• Locally, San Jose has its very
own Veggielution Community
Farm.
• This project is open to the
public and allows volunteers to
bring home a fresh bag of
produce each time they
volunteer.
• To get involved in creating a
local food system in San
Jose to combat issues like
Food Deserts go to
http://www.veggielution.org/
or ask me if you are
interested!
• These projects merge
spatial mismatch of people
and food, to create healthy
viable community.
References
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Websites:
http://www.veggielution.org/
http://www.peoplesgrocery.org
Documents:
Palen, J John. The Urban World 8th Edition. The Political Economy of
Place. Paradigm
Publisher, 2007. Print.
Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. New York:
Penguin, 2008.
Print.
Santa Clara County Public Health Department ( 2010). Santa Clara County
2010 Health
Profile Report.
http://www.lizkniss.org/SCC/docs/Public%20Health%20Department%20(DE
P)/news/attachments/SCC_Health_Profile_Report_7.20.10.pdf