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Deprivation, Diet, and Food-Retail Access: Findings from the Leeds ‘Food Deserts' Study

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  • Neil Wrigley

    (Department of Geography, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, England)

  • Daniel Warm
  • Barrie Margetts

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Within a context of public policy debate in the United Kingdom on social exclusion, health inequalities, and food poverty, the metaphor of the ‘food desert’ caught the imagination of those involved in policy development. Drawing from a major cross-disciplinary investigation of food access and food poverty in British cities, the authors report in this paper findings from the first ‘before/after’ study of food consumption in a highly deprived area of a British city experiencing a sudden and significant change in its food-retail access. The study has been viewed as the first opportunity in the United Kingdom to assess the impact of a non-healthcare intervention (specifically a retail-provision intervention) on food-consumption patterns, and by extension diet-related health, in such a deprived, previously poor-retail-access community. The paper offers evidence of a positive but modest impact of the retail intervention on diet, and the authors discuss the ways in which their findings are potentially significant in the context of policy debate.

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  • Neil Wrigley & Daniel Warm & Barrie Margetts, 2003. "Deprivation, Diet, and Food-Retail Access: Findings from the Leeds ‘Food Deserts' Study," Environment and Planning A, , vol. 35(1), pages 151-188, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:envira:v:35:y:2003:i:1:p:151-188
    DOI: 10.1068/a35150
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    1. Neil Wrigley, 2002. "'Food Deserts' in British Cities: Policy Context and Research Priorities," Urban Studies, Urban Studies Journal Limited, vol. 39(11), pages 2029-2040, October.
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