###work in progress This wiki page, like all wiki pages, is a work in progress. If you can help add information, add links, or clean up the organization of this wiki, then feel free to do so! If you're logged in, click the edit button above! If you haven't signed up for publiclab.org, it's quick and painless! ###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 * [Project outline](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NihDX41mExajHnPxPCGIkCoEddq_8jbyD_fW04_Bbfo/edit?usp=sharing) * Project article: https://medium.com/@levisimons/are-food-deserts-also-food-monocultures-31de780a6db4

Questions on Food Deserts:

[questions:food-deserts]

###food quality

Questions on Food:

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

[questions:food]

* 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) * Multispectral analysis for plant health * [Concept for analysis](http://publiclab.org/wiki/multispectral-analysis-for-determining-plant-health) * [MultispeQ device](http://publiclab.org/search/multispeq) * Tracking outputs * Farming Concrete / Five Borough Farm * more here....

Activities:

[activities:food]

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