The town sits smack in the middle of a USDA food desert stretching miles in every direction.

无论从哪个方向来看，该镇都恰好坐落于 USDA 所定义的食品沙漠范围之内。

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The Food Desert Locator is an online map highlighting thousands of areas where, the USDA says, low-income families have little or no access to healthy fresh food.

食品沙漠定位器是一种凸显数千地区的在线地图，USDA表面在这些地区，低收入家庭获得健康且新鲜的食品（觉得中国人说新鲜的健康食品更顺口一点）的渠道微乎其微。

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This is because in America, the definition of a food desert is any census area where at least 20% of inhabitants are below the poverty line and 33% live more than a mile from a supermarket.

这是因为在美国，任何普查区中，只要其20%以下的居民低于贫困线，33%的居民于距离超市一英里之外居住，那么该地区即被定义为食品沙漠。

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The group calls parts of Chicago, a "food desert", meaning healthy food is not available.

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In good times,the desert provides abundant food for goats and camels, which in turn provide the families with surplus milk and meat to sell in local markets.

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The town sits smack in the middle of a USDA food desert stretching miles in every direction.

ECONOMIST: A shortage of healthy food is not the only problem

Open a full-service supermarket in a food desert and shoppers tend to buy the same artery-clogging junk food as before they just pay less for it.

ECONOMIST: A shortage of healthy food is not the only problem

Ron Finley, an activist in South Central Los Angeles, is leading an effort to counter the neighborhood's "food desert, " by growing fruits and vegetables on city owned and private land.

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