BRAINFART I

Food security involves obrtaining food in a socially acceptable fashion

Access is a subset of security

Access defined in three ways:

Food security indicates access to non-emergency sources

For many in certain neighborhood, access involves the acceptance of:

Sources for non-emergency food

Factors in achieving access to proximity

 

BRAINFART II

Approaches to study:

 

Broader issues, questions, theories to incorporate:

 

BRAINFART III

Writing a thesis proposal / To include within:

Food security <---> food access

Physical access (geographical)

Financial access

Method for study

Background info/review on hunger, security, and access in US and Ohio

Vision within structure of "economic rights"

Geographic rationale of food access

Components of study:

Importance of study

How to create change? What good will come from study? What then?

Literature review

 

To do for it:

Organize committee

Get approval/reviews from committee

Feedback from Kent and committee

Write it

 

BRAINFART IV

How to go about the "research":

Official (?) listing(s) of all supermarkets/convenience stores/food markets

Visit/call in order to ascertain/interview the store about:

Census 2000 (!!) data, to be used for:

Household income

RAce

Population (# of households, children, female heads of households, etc.)

Car ownership (available?)

Akron Metro, review of transportation accessibility

 

BRAINFART V

Food security:

 

Subset of access:

Geographic

Financial

 

BRAINFART VI

Methodology / Criteria for "Access"

Overlap of store's domains

Reach/service area

Proximity to transit

Size/variety of store

Population size area served

Demographics (from Census 2000) within census tracts/blocks

Road-based travel times (Network Analyst)

Index of Dissimilarity (or the like)

 

BRAINFART VII

Layout for thesis proposal:

Abstract (necessary for a proposal?)

Introduction

Literature review (or background info?)

Hypothesis

Methodology

References