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Accessing the Real Price of Good Food
How do we deliver good food to food deserts?
Changemakers Day
August 29, 2008

Access to healthy, fresh and sustainably grown food is a basic human right that is being systematically denied to those who live in historically excluded urban communities. Limited access to good food is only one symptom of a broken food system that affects people worldwide. Other symptoms include diet-related chronic health conditions, growing dependency on government food programs, and food insecurity. The question of “how” to get good food into urban food deserts requires us to think critically about the broken food system as a whole, and it challenges us to develop community-based solutions that empower and encourage those living and working in underserved areas.

greenstockmedia-roc-45-sta-aud-1.jpgPhotos © 2008 Mike Kahn/Green Stock Media. All rights reserved.

Moderator: Oran Hesterman, Fair Food Foundation
Panelists: Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant Opportunities Center – United; Michel Nischan, Wholesome Wave Foundation; Guy Williams, Fair Food Foundation; Malik Yakini, Detroit Food Security Project

From the Slow Food USA blog : "One panel, called “Accessing the Price of Good Food ,” attempted to examine the problem of limited access to good food, diet-related chronic health conditions, growing dependency on government food programs, and food insecurity.  An interesting and ultimately essential contributor to the panel was Saru Jayaraman, from the Restaurant Opportunities Center." greenstockmedia-roc-49-sta-aud-1.jpg

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