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.
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Part One – Food Deserts and Obesity
Temporary link 1 - London’s Underground
Rivers
Part Two – Food Retailing
Non UK retailing, supermarkets and small shops, brief history of selected retailers
Part Three – Food Access Maps
Part Four – Global Geographical Changes
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 Five – Historical Events
Historical Events by date (back to top) (100pp)
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Historical Events by subject (back to top) (60pp)
Countries
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Europe
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France & Germany to 31 Dec 1869 |
France & Germany from 1 Jan 1870 |
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Asia
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Oceania
Africa
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North America
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South America
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Religions
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Technology
Transport
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Part Six – Global Economic Indicators
Click here for a page linking to essential economic data for the world’s major national economies
Part Seven –Ratings, Visitors, Links
Rate this website – click here
Click here to see how
many people have visited this site, by country, annual figures from 1 December
2008
Part Eight – Contact Us
©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
