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People’s Community Market Closer to Finding Funding with White House...
The People’s Grocery Staff. Photo: Asual Aswad A full-service grocery store may finally come to the people of West Oakland. It looks like the People’s Community Market, a long-anticipated mid-size...
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KQED Forum: Eating Healthy in a Food Desert
Roughly one in five San Francisco residents doesn’t have enough to eat, leading more than 100,000 per month to rely on the San Francisco Food Bank. A recent study found that even after building...
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Nudging Detroit: Program Doubles Food Stamp Bucks In Grocery Stores
A customer in the produce section at Metro Foodland, one of the Detroit grocery stores participating in a healthy food incentive program for people with SNAP benefits. The store will add a section of...
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Oakland’s Jack London District: A Food Desert For The Wealthy?
Design for upcoming Portside Community Market. Image courtesy of Portside Community Market The Jack London District might finally get something it’s been lacking since its booming development: a real...
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Snacking In-Between Sidewalks: Mapping Abundance of Wild Edibles in the Bay...
A sampling of photos and findings from Stark and Carlson’s project. Photo: Philip Stark UC Berkeley professors Philip Stark and Tom Carlson are self-proclaimed botanical rubberneckers. When both of...
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Bittman Does Berkeley: Talking Food Politics With Mark Bittman
Mark Bittman in his new office at UC Berkeley Photo: Shelby Pope The man who taught America how to cook everything has come to UC Berkeley, and he has a lot to say. Mark Bittman, New York Times...
View ArticleWhy Walmart And Other Retail Chains May Not Fix The Food Deserts
Earlier this month, Walmart trumpeted that it had beaten a goal it set five years ago: to open at least 275 stores in food deserts by 2016. That targeted expansion into “neighborhoods without access to...
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Mobile Pantries Get Fresh Food to Where People Need It Most
School is letting out, and the back parking lot of Laurel Elementary School in East Oakland bustles with activity. As children stream out of the building, many join their parents and caregivers in line...
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One Restaurant’s Recipe For Social Good: Same Meals, Different Prices
A restaurant chain that charges twice as much for a meal in one location as it does in another? You would think that’s a recipe for angry customers. But Everytable in Los Angeles is betting that this...
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An Oakland Community Grocery Store Feeds Its People
In late June, the Berkeley Food Institute at UC Berkeley launched a multi-media project Hungry for Change, which features twenty trailblazing food systems reformers from across the Golden State,...
View ArticleHow Online Grocery Delivery Could Help Alleviate Food Deserts
For people who live in food deserts, getting groceries can be a real challenge. According to a 2009 U.S. Department of Agriculture report, about 2.3 million people in the United States live more than a...
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