This chapter describes the current food environment in the Galápagos and its historical and
sociopolitical context. Using market survey data, the chapter describes the spatial …

Food deserts are the collection of deprived food environments and limit local residents from
accessing healthy and affordable food. This dissertation research in San Lorenzo, Paraguay …

Background In order to understand why rates of overweight and obesity are so high in the
Ecuadorian province of Galapagos, this study analyzes changes in household food …

This paper is concerned with the possible impact of certain social arrangements and cultural
orientations on food crop production, food availability, and consumption habits. Since it is by …

The increase in prevalence of diet-related diseases and conditions like diabetes, heart
disease, and obesity in the United States over the last 30 years is now well documented and …

Globalization and neoliberal reforms affect the form and spatial distribution of com mercial
food retailing in Guadalajara since the early 1990s. I examine the equity of access to …

This research used local produce as a way to investigate the construction and meaning of
the local food environment by food retailers and consumers in Albuquerque, New Mexico …

Differential access to healthy foods has been hypothesized to contribute to disparities in
eating behaviors and health outcomes. While food deserts have been researched …

Work on global food systems has focused on the livelihoods of farmers directly affected as
growers of agricultural export goods and has paid less attention to those who are left behind …

This dissertation explores the associations between recent global crises in staple food
prices and finance and the following aspects of life in two communities on the island of …