A food desert is any area in the industrialized world where healthy, affordable food is difficult to obtain.

Food deserts are most prevalent in low-socioeconomic minority communities.

1. What differences do you notice between the two maps?

2. With your group, discuss how we could mathematically figure out whether or not a food desert exists.

3. Do the maps represent a food desert? Why?

4. What does this say about the health of individuals who live in low-socioeconomic urban areas?

5. What could you do to make change?1

Adapted from Michele Munks Food Deserts in Toronto Task