01194pab a2200157 454500 180718b2002 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d Wrigley, Neil 'Food Deserts' in British cities: policy context and research priorities 2002 p.2029-040. Oct This paper provides an introduction to the `food deserts' theme by outlining how the problem of access to food, particularly foods integral to a healthy diet, for low-income households in poor neighborhoods in British cities,became an increasingly important issue in the social exclusion and health inequalities debates, during the late 1990s. It documents the emergence of a policy response by UK government to this issue and the way in which policy development ran somewhat ahead of systematic research on key facets of the problem. The paper outlines the research priorities which became apparent by the end of the 1990s and some of the projects which have been funded by the UK research councils and by government departments and agencies to meet this need for fundamental research. - Reproduced. Food supply Urban Studies 54069 54069 54069 0 0 0 0 IIPA IIPA 2018-07-19 Volume no: 39, Issue no: 11 AR54514 2018-07-19 2018-07-19 AR