Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Aug 12, 2024
Profiles the FARMacy program in West Virginia which aims to address rural food insecurity and chronic disease through food, healthcare, education, and more. Source: WOWK.
...food insecurity and chronic disease through food, healthcare, education, and more. Tagged as Food security...
Date: Sep 23, 2024
Discusses the distribution of food insecure people in Missouri, noting high rates of hunger in rural areas. Highlights the impact of poor diet on health outcomes and the potential for gardening to fill gaps in access to fruits and vegetables. Source: KY3.
...Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Missouri...
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.
...Organization Government Accountability Office Tagged as Access · Children and youth · Food security and nutrition · Poverty...
Date: 2019
Describes the process of designing and operating the Southwest New Mexico Food Hub, a program dedicated to increasing local food production, supporting local food systems, and ensuring food distribution to those in need. Includes discussion of logistics, planning, needs assessment, and the process of working with growers and food pantries. Highlights unique challenges experienced in frontier communities.
...food pantries. Highlights unique challenges experienced in frontier communities. Author(s) Ben Rasmussen Date 2019 Type Document Organization National Center for Frontier Communities Tagged as Community and economic development · Farmers and farmworkers · Food security...
Date: Aug 2018
Highlights a study on an intervention to address barriers to food access in economically impoverished rural communities. Focuses on 24 counties in 6 Midwestern states and details the various assessment tools used to evaluate the needs of the community and the success of the intervention.
...Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Public health · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Indiana · Michigan...
Date: Jan 2022
Examines 5 school districts in socially vulnerable communities and describes problems faced by students after disasters, including housing instability, food insecurity, and lack of access to mental health services, especially in rural communities. Includes a state- and territory-level map showing school districts that received federal recovery grants for 2017-2019 presidentially-declared disasters.
...response · Food security and nutrition · Funding · Housing and homelessness · Mental health · Schools · Statistics and data...
Deadline: Applications accepted on an ongoing basis
Supports nonprofits working in the areas of hunger, housing, health and safety, human services, education, social/racial equity, and the environment in American Electric Power's 11-state service area.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Housing and homelessness · Human services · Schools · Wellness, health promotion...
Date: 2020
Examines the changing food landscape of 11 rural counties in Indiana known as the Uplands. Reports on listening sessions that took place in 2019 and summarizes community discussions about food systems and food values. Includes information on food expenditures, farming and land use, and food system profiles of Uplands counties.
...food system profiles of Uplands counties. Author(s) Jodee Ellett, Claire Frohman, Jacob Simpson Date 2020 Type Document Organizations Indiana Center for Rural Engagement, Sustainable Food Systems Science Tagged as Food security...
Deadline: Mar 31, 2022
Grants for programs focused on addressing health issues and challenges within Indiana. Funds must be used for improving health outcomes in one or more priority areas including tobacco use, food insecurity/obesity, lead exposure, hepatitis C, chronic disease, and public health prevention programs.
...Food security and nutrition · Health disparities · Infectious diseases · Obesity and weight control · Racial and ethnic...
Date: Jun 2023
Provides 2022 data on the percentage of households in the North Central Region who run out of food before they have funds to purchase groceries. Examines households by frequency of food insecurity, specific North Central Region state, race, marital status, income, education, and rural, urban, or suburban location.
...Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Illinois · Indiana · Iowa · Kansas · Michigan...