food desert

• problem definition/description
• existing initiatives that address food deserts (there are a lot, so just sticking to what came up in this thread related to PL)
  • Newark Green Community Garden
  • Growing Power
  • etc
• research directions
  • Link to Ariel's research papers

food quality

• problem definition/description
• research directions
  • food fraud (link to Yagiz' work on olive/peanut oil spectroscopy)
  • nutrient density experiments

food growing research

• Infrared imagery for plant health
  • in cover crop monitoring (FarmHack)
  • in crop surveillance (FarmHack, other farms)
  • in community gardens evaluating/demonstrating their practices (Green Community Garden)
• Tracking outputs
  • Farming Concrete / Five Borough Farm
  • more here....

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