Retail food environments research in Canada: A scoping review

LM Minaker, A Shuh, DL Olstad… - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - Springer
OBJECTIVES: The field of retail food environments research is relatively new in Canada.
The objective of this scoping review is to provide an overview of retail food environments …

Just urban food systems: A new direction for food access and urban social justice

M Bedore - Geography Compass, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Food geography has exploded as a subfield of human geography in recent years; however,
normative ideas of justice are not always explicitly addressed. The concept of a 'just urban …

Beyond food security: Understanding access to cultural food for urban Indigenous people in Winnipeg as Indigenous food sovereignty

J Cidro, B Adekunle, E Peters, T Martens - Canadian Journal of Urban …, 2015 - JSTOR
Access to safe, affordable and nutritious food is an obstacle facing many Indigenous people
in the inner city of Winnipeg, which is known for having vast food deserts. While food security …

'Food desertification': The loss of a major supermarket in New Haven, Connecticut

SE Russell, CP Heidkamp - Applied Geography, 2011 - Elsevier
In March of 2010, the only full-service supermarket centrally located in New Haven,
Connecticut closed, stranding many of the city's residents in a food desert. A food desert is …

Cross-sectional analysis of a community-based cooperative grocery store intervention in Saskatoon, Canada

LC Lotoski, R Engler-Stringer, N Muhajarine - Canadian Journal of Public …, 2015 - Springer
Objectives The aim of this research is to examine the awareness and use of the Good Food
Junction (GFJ), a not-for-profit full service cooperative grocery store in a former food desert …

Characterizing Saskatoon's food environment: a neighbourhood-level analysis of in-store fruit and vegetable access

S del Canto, R Engler-Stringer, N Muhajarine - Canadian Journal of Urban …, 2015 - JSTOR
This paper evaluates the relationship between in-store food offerings and neighbourhood
level socio-economic and demographic characteristics in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, as well …

[HTML][HTML] The Good Food Junction: A community-based food store intervention to address nutritional health inequities

R Engler-Stringer, N Muhajarine… - JMIR research …, 2016 - researchprotocols.org
Background: This is a 2-year study to assess the early impacts of a new grocery store
intervention in a former food desert. Objective: The purpose of the study is to understand the …

Local food environments outside of the United States—a look to the north: Examining food environments in Canada

J Black - Local Food Environments, 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
A swell of international interest is growing among health practitioners, researchers, and
urban planners regarding potential strategies for redesigning local food environments …

Assessing the consumer food environment in restaurants by neighbourhood distress level across Saskatoon, Saskatchewan

J Wang, R Engler-Stringer, N Muhajarine - Canadian Journal of …, 2016 - dcjournal.ca
Purpose: To assess the consumer food environment in restaurants in Saskatoon, using the
Nutrition Environment Measures Survey for Restaurants (NEMS-R), to examine differences …

Food, space and the city: Theorizing the free spaces of foodshare's good food markets

M Classens - Canadian Journal of Urban Research, 2015 - JSTOR
This paper explores a social and spatial (socio-spatial) response to urban food insecurity in
Toronto, Ontario as expressed through FoodShare's Good Food Market (GFM) program. I …