Main Page/New measures of food sources

• How are food sources conceptualized?

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  Scale and context determine how we conceptualize

• What does "food source" mean in different disciplines?
  • Nutrition:
    • Cellular level
    • Organism
    • Community/neighborhood
    • City/Country/World
• From a built environment standpoint
  • Food sources = places to procure food
    • Stores
    • Restaurants
    • Emergency food system
  • Food access: what does this mean?

    For access, what conditions are necessary and what conditions sufficient'?

    • Spatial proximity?

      Necessary if mobility is limited

      Neither necessary nor sufficient if mobility is unlimited

    • Ease of getting to/from?

      Necessary if mobility is limited

      Sufficient if mobility is not limited

    • Affordability

      Necessary if income is limited

      Neither necessary nor sufficient if income is unlimited