by Sean Coté | Feb 19, 2024 | D3 Data, D3 Deep Dive, Data democratization, Data Highlights, Data Literacy, Detroit, Food Accessibility, Kit Frohardt-Lane
Food Insecurity: A persistent problem in Southeast Michigan Food insecurity, defined by Healthy People 2030 as “…a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food,” has been an ongoing reality in Southeast Michigan. Since...
by Sean Coté | Nov 8, 2023 | D3 Data, Data Highlights, Detroit, Food Accessibility
Brenna Friday and David Criss are graduate students at Wayne State University (WSU) who are dedicated to studying the drivers and consequences of food insecurity in Detroit, Michigan. Their work in this field is made possible through the support of the Transformative...
by d3wpadmin | Oct 18, 2012 | Food Accessibility, Kurt Metzger
“Poverty and food access are issues of tremendous importance in southeast Michigan. If you are fortunate enough to not have to face the problem, chances are that one of your neighbors is not so fortunate. We must develop regional approaches to deal with poverty...
by d3wpadmin | Apr 27, 2012 | Food Accessibility, Louis Bach
by Louis Bach, Communications Check out the food insecurity map created by Feeding America, which visualizes the USDA’s measure of households that lack access to nutritionally adequate food. (Food insecurity, in other words, means that a household sometimes goes...
by d3wpadmin | Mar 15, 2012 | Food Accessibility
In 2010-2011, the National Kidney Foundation Michigan (NKFM) received a capacity-building grant from the Michigan Department of Community Health’s Office of Minority Health to reduce minority health disparities in the community of Inkster in western Wayne...
by d3wpadmin | Mar 7, 2012 | Food Accessibility
Researchers at Michigan State University have recently raised the bar for quantifying food accessibility. They visited 94 retail locations in Lansing and East Lansing and recorded the presence or absence of 447 food items. From there, they mapped the pedestrian and...
