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Turner, Molly |
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2016-10-21T18:00:35Z |
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dc.date.available |
2016-10-21T18:00:35Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2016-09 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20381 |
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dc.description |
30 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Anthropology and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Fall 2016. |
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dc.description.abstract |
Eating is a human necessity and human right. For this reason, issues of food insecurity
and malnutrition are only becoming more relevant with increased levels of inequality
seen worldwide. Policy makers, academics, and nonprofit workers alike seek to
alleviate issues of hunger, ovemutrition, and undemutrition abroad as well as in the
United States. Many academics and policy makers refer to the term "food desert" when
attempting to understand challenges a community faces in accessing food.
This term refers to a community's proximity to a full-scale supermarket or grocer but
fails to consider important factors such as community ties or vehicle ownership that also
influence an individual's ability to access food.
Using the example of Monroe, Oregon, this narrative will examine the strong social ties
that influence the way a community accesses food in addition to vehicle access in small
rural towns. The information in this section comes largely from informal and
unstructured interviews with key players in the food system and residents of Monroe
and Southern Benton County. When possible, this information is supplemented with
additional research. The narrative continues to discuss the relevancy of findings
throughout the state of Oregon and the implications of these findings, proving that other
factors influence food access that remain largely unnoticed outside of the local
communities. |
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dc.publisher |
University of Oregon |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
University of Oregon theses, Dept. of Anthropology, Honors College, B.A., 2016; |
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dc.rights |
Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-US |
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dc.subject |
Food systems |
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dc.subject |
Food |
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dc.subject |
Nutrition |
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dc.subject |
Rural |
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dc.subject |
Benton County (Or.) |
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dc.subject |
Nonprofit organizations |
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dc.subject |
Food security |
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dc.subject |
Social networks |
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dc.subject |
Social ties |
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dc.title |
A New Level of Complexity: Food Deserts in Monroe, Oregon |
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dc.type |
Thesis / Dissertation |
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