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USDA’s Food Environment Atlas

Detroit’s Eastern Market: A Food Hub in a Food Desert

December 17, 2010 Debbie Tropp, Branch Chief, Farmers Market and Direct Market Research Branch, AMS

Look up Wayne County, Michigan, home to Detroit, in USDA’s Food Environment Atlas and it is obvious that local residents have some significant challenges in accessing healthful food. An alarmingly high number of households that lack a car in Wayne County are located further than one mile from the...

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