Research Project Proposal

            For my research project I have decided to do it about food deserts. To start off, I plan on defining and explaining what a food desert is including its causes and effects. Then I will introduce my thesis: even though food deserts are a nutritional nuisance that is detrimental to the health of some communities, there is little to no chance that the issue with ever become resolved.

            To start my body paragraphs I plan on introducing statistical data and research from my sources. For example, about 2.3 million people (2.2% of all US households) live in low-income, rural areas that are more than 10 miles from a supermarket. Another one is a possible explanation as to why there is a very small chance that the issue of food deserts will get resolved. The hypothesis that they give for this is because food retailers avoid food deserts because those areas with low income have a low demand for healthy, and typically more expensive food.

            Throughout my research paper I plan to answer these three questions. How did food deserts first start to develop, in other words was there a significant event such as the Great Depression that may have triggered it? What is the long term outlook for current food desert communities as well as possible developments of other food deserts in the United States and around the world? What steps are there that we could possibly take in order to help out and improve the conditions of food deserts? I hope to answer all of these questions through my sources and possibly develop and answer more questions along the way.