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Field Reports

Food Access in Three New Orleans Neighborhoods

Amara Foster, Emerson Fellow
Published 2010

New Orleans, Louisiana

Food Access in Three New Orleans Neighborhoods documents the limited food retail options and resulting lack of access to healthy food in 3 low-income communities of color in New Orleans: The 9th Ward, Central City and Hollygrove.

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Publication tags: Field Reports - Food Access, Food Retail - Communities of Color, Food Retailers

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Amara Foster

Emerson Fellow

Originally from Boston, Amara studied architecture and urban planning at Sarah Lawrence College and wrote her senior thesis on the social implications of architectural form. She has worked in child development, nutrition, and sustainable food systems on campus, at the Food Project in Boston, and at Sustainable South Bronx.

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