The Contemporary Local Market: Creating a Network of Food Distribution

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dc.contributor.advisorLamprakos, Micheleen_US
dc.contributor.authorShanklin, Eli Williamen_US
dc.contributor.departmentArchitectureen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2017-06-22T06:47:37Z
dc.date.available2017-06-22T06:47:37Z
dc.date.issued2017en_US
dc.description.abstractDuring the United Nations’ 1996 World Food Summit, the concept of “food security” was defined as existing “when all people, at all times, have physical, [social] and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food which meets their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life”. In the United States, the Department of Agriculture, measures food security on four levels—high, marginal, low and very low, with income and access as two of the major factors contributing to the problem of food insecurity. The country is dotted with hundreds, if not thousands, of food deserts—rural, suburban and urban census tracts—wherein the inhabitants do not have access to fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthy whole foods. Today, 1 in 7 households, which equates to approximately 17.5 million households, are estimated to be food insecure. This thesis seeks to address the problem of food insecurity by creating a community-supported agricultural prototype in which nutritious foods are made accessible to an underprivileged neighborhood while debunking the beliefs surrounding the practices, processes, and sourcing associated with food production and distribution (e.g. “Farm to Shelf”).en_US
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/M2GP18
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/19581
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledArchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledAgricultureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledarchitectureen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfarmen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledfooden_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledinsecurityen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledurbanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledwasteen_US
dc.titleThe Contemporary Local Market: Creating a Network of Food Distributionen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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