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Feeding The South: An Assessment Of Food Availability In Rural Mississippi, Nicole Baiza Lawrence
Feeding The South: An Assessment Of Food Availability In Rural Mississippi, Nicole Baiza Lawrence
Master's Theses
The overall goal of this project is to investigate Mississippi’s rural food environment by assessing the food resources available to rural Mississippians. The primary objectives were to identify sample locations in each of the four cultural regions of Mississippi and determine the food resources available to residents of those counties. The intellectual merit of this research lies in its in-depth exploration of food accessibility in rural areas. Though there is a wealth of literature on the topics of urban food access and food deserts, very little research has been done in rural areas. Most studies focus on urban environments which …