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Campus Connection: UW lands $4.9 million grant to study ‘food deserts’

A University of Wisconsin-Madison project designed to unearth better ways of bringing fresh, local produce and other healthy foods to inner-city communities has earned a $4.9 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The five-year project initially will focus on Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee, cities in which large portions of the population don?t have easy access to affordable and nutritious foods.