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.
More than forty million Americans live in food insecure households – that’s 13 percent of US households, including 13 million children. Over the last decade we have seen an uptick in communities taking action to not only alleviate food insecurity, but to increase access to healthy foods.
This post was originally written by Tove Danovich and was published on Take Part. The original article can be found here. Soda taxes are continuing to bubble up throughout the United States. After Berkeley, California’s soda tax brought in $1.2 million […]
This story was written by Natalie Bettendorf and produced by Youth Radio as part of the series Fast Food Scramble with NPR’s Sonari Glinton. The original article can be found here. We’re facing a kind of food revolution, and my […]
The Agriculture Opportunities in Missouri Hub offers a unique set of tools to help producers assess opportunities for 16 alternative and specialty crops.
Feed the Future strategies for food security are designed not only to accelerate agriculture-led growth and reduce undernutrition, but also to encourage sustainable and equitable management of land, water, fisheries, and other resources. Feed the Future Intern Christopher Chapman asked soil fertility and […]
Market-Based Models for Increasing Access to Healthy Food: Defining What Works Thursday, November 29 3:30-5pm ET There are increasingly more non-traditional food enterprises across the U.S. proving that, through innovative, market-based approaches, we can address food access barriers, particularly for underserved, limited-resource consumers. […]
Hawaii’s Office of Planning has released a series of three reports on “Increased Food Security and Food Self-Sufficiency Strategy” for the state.
CHICAGO, July 30, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Members of the Illinois Alliance to Prevent Obesity hailed the establishment of the Illinois Fresh Food Fund on Monday. The newly created fund was announced by Governor Pat Quinn, the Illinois Department of Commerce […]
Farms have sprouted in cities across the country over the past several years as activists and idealists pour their sweat into gritty soil. Now Paul Lightfoot wants to take urban agriculture beyond the dirt-under-your-nails labor of love. He wants to […]