Food Equity Project
This semester we explored food equity through statistics and data analysis. In small groups we chose an organization to follow, and used their data to create a data analysis. The organization my group followed was Brightside Produce. Brightside Produce works to eliminate food deserts, in the city, by providing people access to fresh produce. They also help eliminate hunger, in SDSU, by providing a weekly basket that students may buy.
In the early stage of our project, we researched the BrightSide Produce Organization, and created an introduction by finding this information:
These were some of our findings:
- Organization Background, History, and current operations
- Problem Statement - What is the organization fighting to alleviate
- Participant and Community Description - Who does the organization serve?
- Programming - What is order to alleviate the problems listed in #2
- Need for your work - Provide a description of the importance of your work!
These were some of our findings:
- Food Desert: An urban area in which it is difficult to buy affordable or good-quality fresh food.
- San Diego has a very prevalent problem with food insecurity facing certain communities. Commonly low-income communities.
- Food insecurity impacts about 16% of the population of San Diego. 494,439 people in San Diego County are food insecure.
- BrightSide Produce is a produce distributor that is able to serve small stores by breaking bulk and giving stores the flexibility to buy the varieties and quantities that are appropriate for the stores at low prices, without minimum order requirements
Volunteering
On the 6th of December our group volunteered at BrightSide produce. We:
- Learned about what parts of San Diego County BrightSide caters to and why
- Learned about the day-to-day of the organization
- One-fourth of people who attend SDSU have faced food insecurity
- Learned about the mathematics behind the distribution methods that BrightSide uses
- Everything that they do has a purpose, including communication and networking
Final Products:
Our final products were a research paper showing all of our data, and a presentation to represent what we did over the semester.
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