Why community-owned grocery stores like co-ops are the best recipe for revitalizing food deserts

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The Mandela Co-op, which opened in a West Oakland, California, food desert in 2009, is a great example of this. The worker-owned grocery store focuses on purchasing from farmers and food entrepreneurs of color.

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