AmeriCorps VISTA and Increasing Access to Healthy Food
Abstract
Despite Philadelphia’s close proximity to some of the richest agricultural land in the nation, access to healthy food at affordable prices has been limited. Out of the 1.5 million people in the city, over 300,000 are living in areas considered “food deserts,” a term created by Great Britain’s Nutrition Task Force in the 1990s to refer to areas with a lack of access to places that sell affordable healthy food (Philadelphia Department of Public Health, 2013). Although there have been recent improvements over the past 10 years, including the addition of Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s and an increase in farmers’ markets, those who now have increased access to purchasing healthy food options are often still living in low-income situations.
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