Community food security in North Minneapolis: Barriers and solutions

Type :

Presentation

Pages :

11 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

01/12/2009

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Geography

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Summary :

Introduction.
1. Continued to denial of the existence of hunger in the United States.
2. Keeping the hunger in this country invisible.
3. Community Food Security.
North Minneapolis.
1. Composition.
2. Minneapolis' most racially diverse area.
3. Disproportionate amount of health problems.
Supermarket disinvestment.
1. Financial disinvestment in low-income communities.
2. Food retailers.
3. Research study published by the Hennepin County Public Services and Human Health Department 2002.
Transportation.
1. The deficiencies of the North Minneapolis routes.
2. Innovative ways of providing low-income and inner-city residents with transport to the supermarket.
Emergency food.
Food cooperatives and community control.
Bibliography.

Abstract

Despite an overwhelming amount of facts, studies, and annual reports proving the contrary, many people today continue to deny the existence of hunger in the United States. Middle-aged Americans will recall hearing their parents demanding them to "finish your dinner because there are people without food in Africa or China." Not many of these parents repeated the metaphor with children going without food in Detroit or Newark. Furthermore, today one does not have to go to any of these cities that have become synonymous with urban decay to see signs of hunger. minneapolis, often ranked by magazines as one of the top five urban areas to live in the U.S., has a hunger problem (A Municipal food Policy for minneapolis).