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Melons growing on fence.<\/p><\/div>\n

We have learnt this week that more than a million people in the UK live in food deserts.\u00a0 These are poorer places where either a lack of transport or supermarkets or other food shops make the purchase of healthy food difficult to impossible.\u00a0 Its a strange but true fact that healthy food is more expensive than unhealthy processed food high in fat or sugar.\u00a0 That’s why so many low income individuals are obese and also why obesity is getting more and more common.<\/p>\n

A variety of solutions have been proposed to this problem which to varying extents exists across the Western World.\u00a0 In the US supermarkets have been subsidised to move into low income neighbourhoods.\u00a0 In France and now the UK very low cost supermarkets have been setup that use food past its best by.<\/p>\n

In Bristol though there are more holistic solutions.\u00a0 A local church ( The River Church<\/a>) runs a not for profit cafe so people can get low cost healthier meals.\u00a0 The second idea is an urban farm combined with a shop to buy fresh produce just above the church.\u00a0 The two seem to be separate organisations.\u00a0 You can buy eggs, homemade jams\u00a0 and other preserves from its shop.\u00a0 Meanwhile the ( Hartcliffe Health & Environment Action Group<\/a>) encourages people to grow food on allotments and sells fresh produce cheaper than the supermarkets.\u00a0 It also offer cooking lessons since people are becoming deskilled at cooking anything (true of both rich and poor).<\/p>\n

Food is going to expensive in a post oil world.\u00a0 But there is a chance to solve environmental and social\/health problems in one go.\u00a0 The lessons of these projects is there is no silver bullets to food deserts\u00a0 and different groups with different groups need to work together.<\/p>\n

Neil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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