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Why community-owned grocery stores like co-ops are the best recipe for revitalizing food deserts

  • Written by Catherine Brinkley, Assistant Professor of Community and Regional Development, University of California, Davis
Detroit People's Food Co-op, opening later this year in a food desert, is an example of a community-driven project.DPFC

Tens of millions of Americans go to bed hungry at some point every year. While poverty is the primary culprit, some blame food insecurity on the lack of grocery stores in low-income neighborhoods.

That’s why cities, states and...

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