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.
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 2017/8.
4) Forthcoming 2017/8 - Future Food Systems: An Ethical and Regulatory Perspective – explicating the issue of Supermarkets and Corporate Social Responsibility in the food chain.
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©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.
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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.
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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 London’s 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 4a Historical Events by date (back to top) (100pp)
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Part 4b Historical Events by subject (back to top) (60pp)
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Great Britain from 1 February 1901 |
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Technology
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Part 5 - Global Economic Indicators (back to top)
Click here for a page linking to essential economic data for the world’s major national economies
Part 6 - Google Earth changes over time (back to top)
153 sites– click here for the co-ordinates
This website is owned and hosted by Shaw Food Solutions Ltd, registered in England no. 07406670
Contact us at
Dr Hillary J Shaw: hshaw@fooddeserts.org or hillshaw@aol.com
