Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the US Food System: Mapping Food Deserts in California

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In this exercise you will work with census tract level data about food deserts in California.  You will compare where food is being produced to where it is being consumed.

Technical skills you will learn:

  • Working with attribute and spatial joins.
  • Performing basic GIS analysis.
  • Creating a final map product.

This exercise was developed for the BRIGHTE Workshop : Climate Change, Global Food Security, and the US Food System that took place the summer of  2016.

Exercise, Maps, and Data (337.3 MB)
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Note: this exercise was developed using Esri ArcGIS 10.4.  Some steps may different in later versions of the software.

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