The Grocery Gap
File Name:The Grocery Gap
Posted By:Sarah Treuhaft
Published on 2010 by
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For decades, low-income communities of color have suffered as grocery stores and fresh, affordable food disappeared from their neighborhoods. Advocates have long drawn attention to this critical issue and crafted policy solutions, but access to healthy food is just now entering the national policy debate. While the problem is obvious to impacted communities, good policy must also be based on solid data about the issue and its consequences. Unfortunately, it often takes years for the research to catch up with pressing needs in historically underserved communities. Sometimes information is not available. Other times, evidence is accumulating but it is buried in journals not widely read by policymakers. Or it is produced by practitioners and advocates for local action campaigns and not accepted by researchers or shared with policymakers or the broader field. Too often, research focusing on low-income people and communities of color, informed by their experiences, or conducted in partnership with them, is perceived as a political strategy, rather than as a legitimate search to understand problems and inform strategies for change.
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