In March, residents throughout Small Town Arizona faced a new and harsh reality as heightened demand for food in the Metro-Phoenix area resulted in emptied shelves in rural communities. Arizona’s food system, one that had become progressively more globalized over time, had finally yielded local consequences. Rural Arizona could no longer ignore trends where farms had been reporting increasingly negative revenue while communities simultaneously suffered from alarmingly high rates of food insecurity and increases in diet-related disease.
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