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Food Policy and Practices
- Food
Routes: How can you help support your local farmer? Where
can you find Local Food? What is Community Supported Agriculture?
Find out from Food Routes.
- The
Food Trust: The Philadelphia-based Food Trust provides direct
services to communities through seasonal farmers' markets, school
markets and nutrition education to help increase residents' access
to affordable and nutritious foods, and educate them about the
benefits of healthy eating.
- Innovative
Farmers of Ohio: This organization is dedicated to promoting
an agriculture that preserves and strengthens the economic, social,
and environmental well-being of Ohio’s farms, farm families,
and rural communities through research, education, and community-building
activities. View their research report assessing the opportunities
and barriers for organic and local foods for restaurant and retail
food store distribution in Ohio.
- California Food Policy Advocates: A statewide public policy
and advocacy organization dedicated to improving the health and
well being of low-income Californians by increasing their access
to nutritious and affordable food.
News,
Editorials, and Reports
- JAN 2006: CITY HEALTH DEPARTMENT BEGINS 1% MILK INITIATIVE IN CENTRAL BROOKLYN, SOUTH BRONX AND HARLEM BODEGA
NEW YORK CITY – January 19, 2006 – Bodega owners in Central Brooklyn, South Bronx, and Harlem have teamed up with the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) and will be offering 1% milk to customers beginning this week. Over the next several months, participating bodega owners have agreed to stock 1% milk, offer discounts, display DOHMH educational posters, and distribute health information to customers.
- MAY 2004: Low-Income
Households’ Expenditures on Fruits and Vegetables
By Noel Blisard, Hayden Stewart, and Dean Jolliffe (a
USDA Agricultural Economic Report No. (AER833) 30 pp, May 2004)
This report analyzes fruit and vegetable expenditures by low-income
households and higher income households, and compares the sensitivity
of both groups' purchases to changes in income.
- MAY 2004:
Plan would add supermarkets in city
The $100 million statewide PA proposal is intended to promote
healthy eating in low-income areas. By Vernon Clark, published
on May 5, 2004, Page B04, Philadelphia Inquirer
- NOVEMBER 2003: Wanted:
Inner city supermarkets
A Pa. House report cites a link between diet-related
diseases and a lack of grocery stores in low-income neighborhoods.
By Amy Worden, published on November 21, 2003, Page B01, The
Philadelphia Inquirer
- JANUARY 2003:
Neighborhood Groceries: New Access to Healthy Food in Low-Income
Communities
A report by the California Food Policy Advocates, January 2003.
- JUNE 2002: Increase
access to healthy food
Leo Horrigan, director of the Urban Agriculture Project for the
Center for a Livable Future argues for a comprehensive food policy
for Baltimore city and the surrounding region in an editorial
to the Baltimore Sun. Published June 16, 2002.
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