Website Search Results for: Food Security
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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: Jan 2020
Results of a study using surveys, interviews, and garden visits to households in rural, western Pennsylvania to explore behavior and motivations of rural food gardeners, and the challenges they face. Discusses the financial, spiritual, and ecological value of gardening, and opportunities for community support.
...initiatives · Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Self-sufficiency · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Pennsylvania...
Date: Aug 2018
Results of a study to examine barriers to implementing Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education policy, systems, and environmental change initiatives in rural areas, and strategies to overcome these barriers. Includes demographic statistics for the 27 interview participants.
...Jilcott Pitts Nutrients, 10(8), 1012 08/2018 Access · Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data...
Date: Mar 2023
Reviews a case study about how an Extension program encouraged rural Tennessee farmers market producers to accept Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits through Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT). Discusses the outcomes of a workshop about how to begin the EBT application process, advertise SNAP at a farmers market, and improve health benefits by expanding food access.
...Promotion Practice, 24(1) 03/2023 Access · Benefit enrollment and application · Food security and nutrition · Tennessee...
Reviewed: Jan 2026
Identifies and develops models to sustain retail sources of food for rural communities. Provides a toolkit for communities interested in establishing or maintaining a rural grocery store as well as a library of resources. Offers videos featuring rural grocery store projects and information on the National Rural Grocery Summit.
...store projects and information on the National Rural Grocery Summit. Access · Food security and nutrition...
Date: Apr 2019
Report exploring a project in which boxes of nutritious, shelf-stable foods were provided to low-income families in the Chickasaw Nation territory in rural Oklahoma. Discusses successes, challenges, and costs of implementation.
...Vivian Gabor, et al. 04/2019 Mathematica Access · Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Tribal communities · Oklahoma...
Date: Nov 2024
Examines and locates veteran food insecurity in rural areas by mapping areas of high vulnerability with geographic information systems (GIS). Utilizes multiple data sources to map out Veterans Health Administration (VHA) locations, food deserts, high veteran population density, low community health rankings, and more. Shows locations in the U.S. that have a high population of veterans and food insecurity that are near a VHA location and may benefit from interventions.
...Journal of Primary Care & Community Health, 15 11/2024 Food security and nutrition · Population health · Veterans...
Date: May 2024
Examines the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on a rural, Appalachian community in Kentucky. Utilizes focus group data from 39 participants to analyze ongoing issues such as social isolation, cost of living, and food access. Discusses how these issues affect mental health, access to needed medications, and ability to purchase nutritious food.
...COVID-19 · Food security and nutrition · Mental health · Pharmacy and prescription drugs · Poverty · Social connectedness · Kentucky...
Reviewed: Nov 17, 2025
Healthy Monadnock is a community-wide initiative that aspires to provide "better health and wellness for all" residents of the Monadnock Region of New Hampshire.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Hospitals · Networking and collaboration · Physical activity · Population health · Social...