Food Accessibility Map
- 1. Estimated Value of Food Access Difficulties
- 2. About Food Accessibility Map
- 3. About Quotation / Reprint
- 4. Corresponding Authors
1. Estimated Value of Food Access Difficulties
Estimation results based on "2015 Population Census"
- Table 1. Estimated Value of Food Access Difficulties (2015)
- Table 2. Trends of Food Access Difficulties
- Table 3. Trends of Food Access Difficulties (over 75 years old)
- Table 4. Estimated Value of Food Access Difficulties (by prefecture)
- Figure 1. Ratio of Food Access Difficulties (2015, by city)
- Figure 2. Ratio of Food Access Difficulties aged over 75 years (2015, by city)
2. About Food Accessibility Map
Food accessibility problems, namely the lack of "access to affordable and nutritious food", are not only caused by shopping difficulties, but also linked to a loss of community and nutrition problems. We create a "food accessibility map" using geographic information system data to specify and visualize these problems.
2.1. Definition of "Food Access Difficulties"
We defined "Food Access Difficulties" for those aged over 65 years who live 500 meters or more away from stores, and who cannot use private cars. Stores including super markets, department stores, greengrocers, butchers, fishmongers, and convenience stores.
2.2. Methodology of Estimation
The number of food access difficulties are calculated from food accessibility map. Food accessibility map is estimated using geographic information system (GIS) and the grid-square statistics of the population censuses of 2005, 2010, and 2015 in Japan. We sets 500 meters as distance that can go shopping on foot from our previous studies. People aged over 65 years without private cars suffer food accessibility problems the most, so we focused on those elderlies as food access difficulties.
3. About Quotation / Reprint
Refer to "Food Accessibility Map by Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan" when quoting sentences, maps, data, and all contents on this web pages. Please contact us in advance in case of reprinting or redistributing.
4. Corresponding Authors
Policy Research Institute, Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan
TAKAHASHI Katsuya, YAGI Kohei, ITO Nobuhiro