Welcome to the Food Desert Website
Feeling hungry? No proper
food in the house? Can't face that trek to the shops? Tempted by a burger and
some chips from the local takeaway, or a chocolate bar, but it's not really
healthy, is it? You may be living in a food
desert. The food
desert website tells you all about food
deserts, why they affect everybody, the links to globalisation and
social exclusion, and how the effects of food
deserts may be alleviated or eliminated.
Temporary link - click here for document
on Nottingham Bunker (till 13 April 2018)
Further reading on food and food deserts.
1) The Consuming
Geographies of Food: Diet, Food Deserts and Obesity, HJ Shaw,
Routledge, 2014, Full Book Description and Voucher Here
2) The
Reducetarian Solution, B Kateman ed. Penguin Random House
2017, https://reducetarian.org/book
3) Report on Food
Justice, Obesity and Austerity in Cardiff and the Welsh Valleys, funded by CURA
(Centre for Urban Research on Austerity). Initial results available here full
report forthcoming 2018.
4) Forthcoming 2018 - Future
Food Systems: An Ethical and Regulatory Perspective explicating the issue
of Supermarkets and Corporate Social Responsibility in the food chain.
Click here to see
our consultancy and mapping services
Part 1 - Food Deserts and Obesity
Try out our new Food Desert Finder
©2015. Click here for the map. This map shows which areas, by distance, are
Food Oases (500 metres from a fruit and vegetable shop), which are Food
Savannahs (500 1,000 metres) and which are food deserts (over 1,000 metres
from a fruit and vegetable shop).
Obesity map of London. This map shows % obesity levels for 12-year-olds in
2011/12 at the MLSOA level. MLSOAs (see www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk)
are census areas with population ca. 7,000. Note the strong association between
low obesity in prosperous areas (Hampstead) and higher obesity in more deprived
areas (Lea Valley). Also note the higher levels of obesity in London compared
to England, despite Londons overall wealth. The whole of England and Wales is
being mapped at this MSOA level giving a very detailed picture of local obesity
levels. Also coming soon, socio-demographic maps of England and Wales at the
MLSOA level.
For medical effects of obesity, see The Consuming Geographies of Food: Diet, Food Deserts and Obesity, H Shaw, Routledge 2014
Part 2 - Food Retailing (back to top)
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Non UK retailing, supermarkets and small shops, brief history of selected retailers
Part 3 - food retailing maps, UK (back to top)
Click here for index page linking to food
retail maps, covering most of the UK, also areas in Europe.
Part 4 - Google Earth changes over time (back to top)
GeoChanges Google Map, https://drive.google.com/open?id=15nUwJvKQxvETRQKdlXHiAzGdVlF_U6dZ&usp=sharing How to use this map. Each icon on
the map (sorted by type of change, e.g. urbanisation, river evolution, coastal change)
links to a location viewable on Google Earth https://www.google.co.uk/earth/download/gep/agree.html
1) The
icon information has an altitude number, latitude/longitude co-ordinates, and a
year
2) Cut
and paste the latitude/longitude co-ordinates into Google Earth
3) The
optimum viewing altitude is given as the altitude number (in km)
4) The
year indicates the optimum year to go back to and view the current changes from;
NB this may not be oldest year actually viewable on Google Earth because older
G E shots may have lower resolution.
Part 5a Historical Events by date (back to top) (100pp)
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Part 5b Historical Events by subject (back to top) (60pp)
Countries
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Africa (ex. Egypt, South Africa) |
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France & Germany to 31 Dec 1869 |
France & Germany from 1 Jan 1870 |
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Great Britain to 31 January 1901 |
Great Britain from 1 February 1901 |
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South & Central America
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South East Asia (Thailand Papua, ex
Vietnam) |
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Physical
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Religions
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Technology
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Part 6 - Global Economic Indicators (back to top)
Click here for a page linking to essential economic data for the worlds major national economies
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how many people have visited this site, by country, annual figures from 1
December 2008
©Shaw
Food Solutions 2003 - 2015. The
material on this site is open access and may be freely cited, so long as www.fooddeserts.org
is acknowledged as the source.
To
help this website become more informative and useful for the community, please
email any information or links you feel it might be useful include to hillshaw@aol.com for example food
retail information, historical dates, economic data etc.
Contact us at
Dr Hillary J Shaw: hshaw@fooddeserts.org or hillshaw@aol.com
