Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Deadline: Jan 30, 2026
Grants for rural organizations working outside of healthcare but interested in supporting community health in the Midwest Region.
...Food security and nutrition · Occupational health and safety · Tobacco use · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Oct 2019
Offers possible solutions to challenges that affect families' ability to afford a healthy diet. Explores strategies developed specifically to meet needs of overlooked rural communities, including help with housing and transportation.
...Food security and nutrition · Housing and homelessness · Rural-urban differences · Transportation · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: Nov 2020
Provides an overview of the accessibility needs to goods and services - food, healthcare, broadband, education, as well as, customer, labor, and supplier markets - for the people and businesses of Appalachia. Looks at the current research on rural accessibility and economic development. Outlines methods for measuring accessibility, offers an analyses approach using accessibility metrics, and discusses other considerations in long range accessibility planning.
...Regional Commission, EBP US, Inc. Access · Appalachia · Broadband · Food security and nutrition · Human services · Transportation...
Date: Sep 2018
Examines questionnaire responses from adults in rural Kentucky to determine whether overall diet quality varies according to body mass index (BMI) category and presence of depressive symptoms in people with or at increased risk of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Contains data comparing healthy eating habits among depressed and non-depressed individuals who are overweight or obese, including breakdowns by age, sex, marital status, education, comorbidities, and other characteristics.
...Food security and nutrition · Mental health conditions · Obesity and weight control · Rural-urban differences · Statistics...
Deadline: Jun 5, 2026
Grants to support partnerships that connect public and private resources to plan and develop local and regional food systems.
...Farmers and farmworkers · Food security and nutrition · Networking and collaboration · Planning and strategy methods and resources...
Date: Apr 2022
Discusses Appalachia's food systems based on the United States Department of Agriculture's (USDA) 2017 Census of Agriculture, highlighting the connection to economic and community development, environmental health and safety, and public health. Provides case studies of food banks that improve community access to food as well as produce prescription programs that help treat chronic diseases and promote community health.
...promote community health. 04/2022 Appalachian Regional Commission Appalachia · Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences...
Date: Jun 2021
Discusses efforts to improve nutrition of rural Appalachian citizens through community-developed marketing strategies. Examines statistical differences in food purchases at 5 Kentucky gas stations before and after healthier options were noted on station shelves via a "Smart Snack" logo.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Kentucky...
Date: Apr 2015
Summarizes findings from 29 rural studies of obesity prevention interventions using nutrition-related and environmental strategies. Includes interventions in school, tribal, farmers market, and other settings. Discusses common strategies for adapting and implementing these programs in rural communities.
...Pitts, et al. Preventing Chronic Disease, 12 04/2015 Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control...
Date: 2014
Examines whether dietary interventions have a greater response among people with a family history of colorectal cancer compared with the general population in rural Virginia. Data was collected by telephone surveys completed at a starting baseline and a one-month follow-up using a 28 question Fat and Fiber Behavior questionnaire. Includes family member and general population sample group data by demographics, education, eating habits, family social support, and other factors.
...Food security and nutrition · Health screening · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention...
Deadline: Jun 5, 2026
Grants to intermediary organizations to support the development, coordination, and expansion of local and regional food business engaging as intermediaries in indirect producer-to-consumer marketing to increase access to and availability locally and regionally produced agricultural products. Priority will be given to projects that benefit communities located in low income/low food access census tracts.
...economic development · Farmers and farmworkers · Food security and nutrition · Planning and strategy methods and resources...