So the article I found, “Planning for Regional Food Equity,” is about how not everyone has the same access to healthy food, and a lot of it has to do with how regions (not just cities) are planned. Like, it’s not just random, there are actual systems and policies that make it easier for some people to get fresh food while others are stuck with like convenience stores or nothing nearby.
The main point is that planners (the people who decide how cities and regions are organized) can help fix this. They can improve transportation so people can actually get to grocery stores, support local farms, and make policies that spread food resources more fairly. The article keeps stressing that you have to look at the regional level, not just one city, because everything is connected.
This connects to the Horst article because that one talks about food justice too, but more at the city level. Horst is basically saying local governments try to fix food problems, but they run into limits. The “Planning for Regional Food Equity” article kind of builds on that by saying yeah, cities alone aren’t enough, you need bigger, regional cooperation to actually make a difference.
So overall, both articles are saying the food system isn’t fair, and fixing it is complicated. Cities can try, but if the whole region isn’t involved, it only helps so much. Which is kind of frustrating, but also makes sense.
Anyway, the main takeaway is that where you live really affects what food you can get, and fixing that takes more than just one city trying its best.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01944363.2020.1845781#abstract
- you have full access to the article using the KU library institute ^-^
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