Food Deserts – Wichita, KS

Wichitans face 44 square miles of ‘food deserts’ in low-income areas, By Beccy Tanner, October 7, 2013, Wichita Eagle: “Wichita has 44 square miles of food deserts – low-income areas where residents have little to no access to healthy foods such as fruits and vegetables, a study presented Monday by the Health & Wellness Coalition of Wichita showed. In an urban area, a food desert is defined as an area more than one mile from a full-service grocery store. Here, those areas are concentrated in south, central, north and parts of west Wichita…”