Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Oct 2021
Discusses the federal government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Provides an overview of federal actions on healthcare and economic policy areas through September 2021, including data on COVID-19 relief spending, testing, worker health and safety, and child nutrition programs. Offers 16 new recommendations to federal agencies regarding the proper use of relief funding, occupational health and safety, and fraud risks to unemployment insurance programs that would improve the federal response and preparation for future public health emergencies.
...Food security and nutrition · Funding · Income support and assistance · Occupational health and safety · Policy · Statistics...
Date: Apr 2016
Results of a study in which 110 southern Illinois women identified physical, economic, and social barriers to acquiring healthy food. Features statistics including race, age group, and county of residence.
...Nadine R. Peacock Preventing Chronic Disease, 13 04/2016 Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Illinois...
Date: Feb 2017
Evaluates the implementation of a mobile farmer's market in California that was intended to increase access to fresh produce in a rural area. Discusses the program, evaluation methods used, and lessons learned.
...Nutrition Education and Behavior, 49(2), 166-174 02/2017 Access · Food security and nutrition · California...
Date: Dec 2016
Highlights challenges experienced by a farmers market in Snow Hill, North Carolina. Describes efforts to build both a customer base and a vendor base.
...base and a vendor base. 12/2016 Rural Advancement Foundation International Access · Food security and nutrition · North Carolina...
Date: Jul 2017
Identifies non-nutritive sweetener (NNS) intake among adults living in rural southwest Virginia. Examines if differences exist between NNS consumers and NNS non-consumers by demographics, weight and body mass index (BMI), cardio-metabolic measures, dietary intake and quality.
...Jamie M. Zoellner Nutrients, 9(7), 757 07/2017 Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Virginia...
Date: Jul 2018
Testimony before the Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education, U.S. House of Representatives, summarizing the May 2018 Government Accountability Office report on summer meals. Addresses what is known about Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) participation, other summer programs that feed low-income children, challenges in providing rural children with summer meals, and the extent to which the USDA provides assistance.
...Kathryn A. Larin 07/2018 Government Accountability Office Access · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Poverty...
Date: Oct 2017
Details the values, goals, and recommendations of food system stakeholders throughout Maryland and encourages coordination and collaboration for a healthy, equitable, economically and environmentally sustainable food system. Includes recommendations for the five major food system sectors: production and processing, distribution, access, consumption, and recovery.
...recovery. 10/2017 The Institute for Public Health Innovation Access · Food security and nutrition · Policy · Maryland...
Date: Jan 2018
Results of a study conducted in January and February of 2016, assessing availability and price of 68 food items at stores within a 90-mile radius of a large rural reservation. Includes statistics with breakdowns by availability and price of food, by store type.
...Best, et al. Preventing Chronic Disease, 15 01/2018 Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Tribal communities...
Date: Sep 2018
Reports the findings of a modified Food Choices Values (FCV) Questionnaire administered to 83 American Indian (Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma) customers who shop at tribally owned convenience stores at least 3 times a week. Questionnaire requested information related to buying and eating food, including sensory appeal, safety, accessibility, weight control, convenience, and organic and comfort food. Research findings were used to design and implement a healthy retail intervention within two tribally owned and managed convenience stores.
...Appetite, 128, 14-20 09/2018 Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Tribal communities · Oklahoma...
Date: Aug 2017
Examines fruit and vegetable quality through the use of total phenolic (TP) scores comparing rural and urban consumer food environments in Montana. TP score is a phytochemical measure for health-promoting attributes, flavor, appearance, and shelf-life. Includes data showing TP scores by rurality for both fruits and vegetables.
...Health, 14(8), 924 08/2017 Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Montana...