food desert

== English == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fuːd ˈdɛzə(ɹ)t/ (General American) IPA(key): /fud ˈdɛzɚt/ Hyphenation: food de‧sert === Noun === food desert (plural food deserts) (figurative) A populated region where food, especially healthy food, is difficult to obtain. [from early 1990s] Coordinate terms: food oasis, food swamp ==== Translations ==== ==== See also ==== food bowl ==== References ==== === Further reading === food desert on Wikipedia.Wikipedia