Website Search Results for: Food Security
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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: Oct 2015
Describes the mid-intervention results of the Men on the Move Growing Communities (MOTMGC) program that works to change the dietary behaviors among rural African Americans in Missouri by providing nutrition education and access to fruits and vegetables through community gardens. Includes data at baseline and mid-intervention by gender, age, income, education, and perceived income adequacy.
...Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Missouri...
Date: Sep 2014
Describes a project in which community advisory boards (CABs) were established by residents of the Menominee, Lac du Flambeau, and Bad River rural tribal communities and university partners, for the purpose of eliminating barriers to healthy nutrition and physical activity and fostering improvement in overall community health.
...Food security and nutrition · Physical activity · Tribal communities · Wellness, health promotion, and disease prevention · Wisconsin...
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.
...Behavior, 49(2), 166-174 Date 02/2017 Tagged as Access · Food security and nutrition · California...
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.
...Chronic Disease, 13 Date 04/2016 Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Illinois...
Date: Oct 2019
Highlights a study on the perceived barriers to the access of healthy food for rural tribal communities. Bases conclusions on focus group interviews and discusses potential interventions.
...Nutrition, 22(14), 2653-2661 Date 10/2019 Tagged as Environmental health · Food security and nutrition · Public health · Tribal communities...
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.
...Nutrients, 9(7), 757 Date 07/2017 Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data · Virginia...
Date: Dec 2019
Discusses the impact of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on rural communities, addressing rural-specific needs, challenges, and considerations related to program implementation. Describes rural health disparities and food access issues in rural areas, and the potential effects of changes to SNAP on rural participants.
...Health, 109(12), 1641-1645 Date 12/2019 Tagged as Access · Benefit enrollment and application · Food security and nutrition · Policy...
Date: Dec 2016
Results of interviews and surveys with residents of a rural central California agricultural community, exploring their perceptions of access to healthy foods.
...Nathan Citation Preventing Chronic Disease, 13 Date 12/2016 Tagged as Food security and nutrition · California...
Date: Oct 2018
Describes a collaborative community effort establishing a city market to increase access to healthy food in rural Beaufort County, North Carolina. The Washington City Market provides a venue for local growers to sell their products and matches restaurants in the region with local growers and their products.
...Kate B. Reynolds Charitable Trust Tagged as Food security and nutrition · Networking and collaboration · North Carolina...