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Food Injustice in Inglewood and The South bay

Food Injustice in Inglewood and The South bay. Prepared by: Danielle DeRuiter -Williams Winter 2011. South Bay at-a-glance. Inglewood and the South Bay. Food Justice. Access to: healthy affordable organic locally grown culturally relevant food. “Access”. Location matters

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Food Injustice in Inglewood and The South bay

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  1. Food Injustice in Inglewood and The South bay Prepared by: Danielle DeRuiter-Williams Winter 2011

  2. South Bay at-a-glance

  3. Inglewood and the South Bay

  4. Food Justice • Access to: • healthy • affordable • organic • locally grown • culturally relevant food

  5. “Access” • Location matters • The further from healthy food options a population is the more likely they are to experience diet related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity, heart disease, etc.

  6. Challenges Food Justice in the South Bay varies by city but many communities find themselves lacking access to healthy foods at low cost Additionally, these communities are overrun with fast food restaurants and corners stores which tend to be the go-to place for snacks for youth

  7. Access to Grocery Stores, African-Americans

  8. Access to Grocery Stores, Latinos

  9. Grocery Stores in the south bay

  10. Fast food restaurants and youth

  11. A Closer look at inglewood

  12. Opportunities • Social Justice Learning Institute is working to improve food justice by increasing food assets in the South Bay • Fruit Tree Distribution • Gardens • Farmers Market • CSA

  13. Opportunities

  14. Recommendations • Obtain land from CRA for larger scale gardens • Alter zoning laws to account for rooftop gardening • Partner with public schools to provide locally produced food to students • Pass moratorium against the proliferation of fast food restaurants • Repurpose corner stores to carry healthy, just fare

  15. Skills Employed • Modeling—geocode model for fast food restaurants • Metadata—created regional layer for South Bay • Measurement & Analysis—1 mile buffer surrounding grocery stores • Original Data—addresses of families and individuals who received trees • Extracting information from a buffer—fast food restaurants and concentration of youth • Geoprocessing—clips on all slides • Geocoding—grocery stores, fast food, trees • Boundary Subset—City limits of South Bay Cities • Inset Map • Select by Attribute—fast food restaurants only in the South Bay • Fast Food and Youth contains 7 layers

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