Assessing the Impact of Improved Retail Access on Diet in a 'Food Desert': A Preliminary Report

By N. Wrigley, D. Warm, B. Margetts, A. Whelan. 2002

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Making reconnections in agro-food geography: alternative systems of food provision (2005, background): “…increase the consumption of fresh, healthy food in areas where it is most lacking,20 preliminary results from a study in Leeds suggest that ‘retail provision intervention may have a marked effect on improving the diet of the most “at risk” groups in nutritional terms’ (Wrigley et al., 2002: 2078).”
On Places Lost and Places Regained: Reflections on the Alternative Food Geography and Sustainable Regional Development (2009, background): “Another expression of malnutrition is the increase in so-called ‘food deserts’ (Wrigley et al., 2002; Cummins & Macintyre, 2006), i.”
Associations of the local food environment with diet quality--a comparison of assessments based on surveys and geographic information systems: the multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis. (2008, background): “Local food environments and residents’ diets have been linked in observational studies (16, 19–24) and in natural experiments (25), although not all results have been consistent (26, 27).”