Food Desert and Foodscape: Spatial Categories of Food Security
Food Desert and Foodscape: Spatial Categories of Food Security

Summary/Abstract: A food desert is a scientific metaphor that emerged in the developed western countries. It reflects the problems of economic and physical access to safe food with key focus ofresearchers on retail sales and food supermarkets. Residents of transformed economies often have noaccess to healthy and good-quality food; distinct spatial and social differentiation in terms of foodavailability is typical for their communities, while retail sales have intrinsic cultural and economicspecificities. Conventional economic practices that remain stagnant despite globalization even furtheraggravate situation with access to food. Intention of this research is to review the main approaches tothe problems of food deserts and foodscape, and to analyze their applicability to non-western societieson the case study of Russia.

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