Participation in the program, called “Más Fresco,” or “More Fresh” in English, gives Gonzalez an additional $40 a month to spend on produce, allowing her to broaden the palates of her three U.S.-born children.
A national survey of not-for-profit general hospitals throughout the United States assessed the landscape of community benefit programming to increase healthy food access, promote healthy and sustainable food systems, and reduce risk of diet-related health conditions.
Countries are grappling with what health experts call the “double burden of malnutrition”: undernutrition and overnutrition. While one part of the population goes hungry, another is obese and overweight, becoming more prone to chronic conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and hypertension.
With food insecurity increasing across the country, foodbanks like MANNA must continually look for partnerships that help them get “meals on the ground” wherever needed in their 16 county network.
There are still 48.1 million people in this country who live in households that struggle to afford an adequate diet.
PolicyLink, The Food Trust, and The Reinvestment Fund are excited to announce the Healthy Food Access Portal and an accompanying, introductory webinar, Knowing the Basics: Food Access 101. The new portal connects to an extensive array of resources to improve access […]
World Harvest Church in Kansas City opens a grocery store to offer healthy choices in a known “food dessert” see the video
Why We Can’t Get Healthy Foods in Poor Communities California’s Public Policy Institute published a study in March revealing that not only do poor neighborhoods contain more fast-food restaurants and corner stores than affluent ones, these communities hold nearly twice […]
Will Allen, son of a sharecropper, former professional basketball player, ex-corporate sales leader and now farmer, has become recognized as among the preeminent thinkers of our time on agriculture and food policy. The founder and CEO of Growing Power Inc., […]
A Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Policy Snapshot looks at access to supermarkets and what that means to health, communities, and economic revitalization. read the report