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Federal initiative brings healthy fare to food deserts

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food_desertsA collaborative initiative by three federal agencies aims to increase the supply of nutritious foods in urban and rural areas where access to healthy food is low. Jacob Wascalus of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis writes in the April 2013 of Community Dividend about how collaborative projects can create the critical mass necessary to make healthy food environments a reality for millions more Americans.