Website Search Results for: Food Security
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Date: Jul 2018
Provides information on the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program in rural versus urban areas, including rates of poverty, food insecurity, participation in WIC, and more.
...enrollment and application · Children and youth · Families · Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Rural-urban differences · Women...
Date: Apr 2011
Describes barriers rural, low-income families face to access quality, affordable, and healthful food. Concludes that remedies used in urban areas will not help to fix the problem of food deserts in rural areas.
...David Hartley Rural and Remote Health, 11(2), 1631 04/2011 Families · Food security and nutrition...
Reviewed: Oct 2025
Provides an overview of the challenges rural communities face related to hunger, with selected statistics on rural food insecurity.
...selected statistics on rural food insecurity. Feeding America Food security and nutrition · Statistics and data...
Date: Jul 2011
Evaluates and compares the rates of overweight, obesity and related health behaviors among rural and urban children using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · Wellness...
Date: Dec 2021
Report examining food insecurity among American Indian and Alaska Native communities during the COVID-19 pandemic based on 504 food access survey responses. Discusses food insecurity rates in relation to respondent characteristics, resiliency of Native producers and food economies, and policy recommendations to address food access issues.
...Native American Agriculture Fund Access · Food security and nutrition · Policy · Statistics and data · Tribal communities...
Date: Jul 2013
Examines the feasibility of increasing access to healthy foods available in corner stores by engaging corner store owners and customers in a formative evaluation to gather information to be used in the Communities Putting Prevention to Work (CPPW) initiative. Includes shopping pattern and characteristic data on 179 rural food desert and urban nonfood desert customers in 9 corner stores in North Carolina.
...Disease, 10 07/2013 Food security and nutrition · Rural-urban differences · Statistics and data · North Carolina...
Date: Jul 2011
Examines leading health risks among nationally representative sample of American Indian/Alaska Native high school students and compares rates to other racial/ethnic groups. Includes statistical breakdowns by frequency of cigarette and alcohol use, weight status, physical activity level, television and computer use, and healthy food intake.
...youth · Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Physical activity · Tobacco use · Tribal communities...
Date: 2018
Describes effects of food insecurity in rural areas and offers strategies to increase participation in federal nutrition programs. Includes statistics comparing levels of poverty and food insecurity in rural and metropolitan areas in 2016, and a state-level map with percentages of food insecure households.
...Food security and nutrition · Poverty · Rural-urban differences · State-by-state data · Wellness, health promotion...
Date: Dec 2013
Examines associations between healthy food zoning scores derived from information on local zoning ordinances, county demographics, and residents' access to fruit and vegetable outlets in 15 rural northeastern North Carolina counties. Includes data for all 15 counties by race/ethnicity, poverty, percent of population living in a food desert, obesity rates, and percent rural population.
...Food security and nutrition · Obesity and weight control · Statistics and data · Wellness, health promotion, and disease...
Date: 2025
Examines the implementation of the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer (Summer EBT) program in the Chickasaw and Cherokee Nations that are located in Oklahoma. Discusses the program's impact on food insecurity in Tribal communities and how to improve participation in the future.
...Benefit enrollment and application · Children and youth · Families · Food security and nutrition · Tribal communities · Oklahoma...