Retail concentration, food deserts, and food-disadvantaged communities in rural America

Remaking the North American Food System: Strategies for Sustainability

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 201-215

  Blanchard, Troy C ^a   Matthews, Todd L ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LAGRANGE COLLEGE   (United States)

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