food desert

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /fuːd ˈdɛzə(ɹ)t/    美 /fud ˈdɛzɚt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A populated region where food, especially healthy food, is difficult to obtain. figuratively
    — For years, major supermarket chains have been criticized for abandoning densely populated, largely black and Latino communities in cities like Detroit, Los Angeles, Memphis and Newark, N.J. — contributing to what many experts call food deserts.

词形变化

food deserts plural

词源

A report by Cummins and Macintyre states that a resident of public housing in western Scotland supposedly coined the more specific phrase food desert in the early 1990s. The phrase was first officially used in a document in 1995 from a policy working group on the Low Income Project Team of the UK's Nutrition Task Force.
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