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Food Deserts
Why Community Owned Grocery Stores Are the Best Solutions to Food Deserts:

https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/community-owned-grocery-stores-revitalizing-food-deserts

Definition and Locations across the US: https://socialwork.tulane.edu/blog/food-deserts-in-america

Food Deserts and Income Inequality: one and the same: https://www.citylab.com/equity/2018/01/its-not-the-food-deserts-its-the-inequality/550793/

​Financial resources limit food choice: https://news.ncsu.edu/2017/03/money-food-deserts-2017/

Junk Food Swamps
​Salt, Sugar, Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us 
by Michael Moss, 2013
Food as affordable reward when you are poor: https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-singh-food-deserts-nutritional-disparities-20180207-story.html
Why Is American Food So Cheap?: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/01/why-is-american-food-so-cheap/33259/
Fast Food Genocide: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGdQr-D4NoA&feature=youtu.be

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Management Intensive Grazing
ROI and MiG

https://www.cias.wisc.edu/the-social-implications-of-management-intensive-grazing-a-bibliography/
https://www.cias.wisc.edu/management-intensive-rotational-grazings-senseand-dollars/
Mathematical analysis of improved management and grazing: 
file:///home/chronos/u-9b207fd1a426d25e1786a0ea8582c5e4504c1ea3/Downloads/8161-8042-2-PB.pdf
Holistic Management Success Stories: https://holisticmanagement.org/holistic-management/success-stories/holisticmanagement.org/holistic-management/success-stories/

MiG and Practice
http://sustainagga.caes.uga.edu/systems/management-intensive-grazing.html
Stockman Grass Farmer: https://www.stockmangrassfarmer.com/Store/index.php?productID=724
Graze Magazine: http://www.grazeonline.com/

Maple Production
The Southern Syrup Research Symposium
Future Generations: 
https://www.future.edu/maple/

Single Sector Economies/Automation
I've Seen the Future and It Looks Like Appalachia, by EDGE Board Member Travis Lowe
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy: 
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/12/20/artificial-intelligence-automation-and-economy

land-based Trainings in the region beyond edgE

Appalachian Headwaters Bee Production
Future Generations Maple
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Media regarding EDGE and some of its co-partners can be viewed at the following links:

About EDGE co-founder and advisor, Crystal Cook Marshall: https://barnard.edu/magazine/summer-2018/down-earth
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American Youth Agripreneur Association: https://www.facebook.com/ayaacareerbuilding/

McDowell County Farms Agricultural Cooperative:
http://www.wvva.com/story/36091784/2017/08/08/mcdowell-county-farms-teaches-residents-new?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=13571957

https://www.facebook.com/mcdfarms/

https://youtu.be/-9W2--pQ70w

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https://spark.adobe.com/video/vVLCs2RzO4TaN

http://wvpublic.org/post/what-happens-when-walmart-closes-one-coal-community

https://youtu.be/9HyJVZbJUFo

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