Food Desert Locator Press Kit

 

What's available in this press kit:

• Press release
• Multimedia
• Clickable images for your website
• Logos and images for print publications
• Related links
• Press contacts

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Press release

• May 2, 2011 – USDA Introduces Online Tool for Locating 'Food Deserts'

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Multimedia

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Clickable images for your website

How to use:To post a clickable image that brings visitors to the Food Desert Locator, copy and paste the associated code into the source of your web page where you would like the image to appear:

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Logos and images for print publications

Click the thumbnails below to see slightly larger versions.

If you need hi-res images for print, please send e-mail requests to ctaylor@ers.usda.gov.

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Related links

Economic Research Service (ERS):

• Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food—Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences: Report to Congress
• Access to Affordable, Nutritious Food Is Limited in “Food Deserts”
• Household Food Security in the United States, 2009
• Diet Quality and Food Consumption - page with more links to further information on food and diet

White House:

• Let’s Move campaign website
  • Accessing Healthy and Affordable Food

USDA:

• USDA Blog Posts on Food Deserts
  

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Press contacts:

• Michele Ver Ploeg, sverploeg@ers.usda.gov, 202-694-5372
  
• Vince Breneman, breneman@ers.usda.gov, 202-694-5597