food desert

Spanish translation: desierto alimentario

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00:55 Sep 18, 2020
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Additional field(s): Food & Drink, Government / Politics, Nutrition, Social Science, Sociology, Ethics, etc.
English term or phrase: food desert
Definition from Cambridge Blog:
An area where there is little or no access to healthy food.

Example sentence(s):
  • These are also the groups most likely to live in food deserts, and researchers have established a strong correlation between food insecurity and increased diabetes rates. One study of Chicago neighborhoods found the death rate from diabetes in food deserts to be twice that of areas offering access to grocery stores, [14] while another conducted in California found that adults ages 50 and over from black and brown communities had double the diabetes rate of whites from the same age demographic. Food Is Power
  • Educating those in the community or tract of the food desert can help make changes, such as growing their own food and working with local convenience stores to sell healthier food options. Public awareness of food deserts can lead to healthy discourse and may even lead to ideas about how to end food deserts in America once and for all. Gardening Know-how
  • The key to getting food into food deserts is to make it as easy as possible for people to access fresh, healthy food. Shareable
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Spanish translation:desierto alimentario
Definition:
Un área con escaso acceso a alimentos, ya sea por cuestiones económicas o logísticas.
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Néstor Zumaya
United States
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4 +8desierto alimentario
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desierto alimentario


Definition from own experience or research:
Un área con escaso acceso a alimentos, ya sea por cuestiones económicas o logísticas.

Example sentence(s):
  • Este fenómeno, conocido como “desiertos alimentarios”, implica la exclusión de los consumidores en territorios con un limitado acceso a alimentos frescos y nutritivos. - FAO  
Néstor Zumaya
United States
Local time: 04:05
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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desierto alimenticio


Definition from Wikipedia:
Un desierto alimenticio es un área, especialmente con residentes de bajos ingresos, que tiene acceso limitado a alimentos asequibles y nutritivos.

Example sentence(s):
  • “El Departamento de Agricultura de los Estados Unidos (USDA) define los desiertos alimenticios como zonas rurales o de bajos ingresos que carecen de acceso a fruta fresca, verduras y otros alimentos saludables y de buena calidad” (Portnoy 110). - Los Angeles Culinary Culture  
Antonella Perazzoni
Argentina
Local time: 06:05
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
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