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Leveraging Citizen Science for Healthier Food Environments: A Pilot Study to Evaluate Corner Stores in Camden, New Jersey

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2018
Over the last 6 years, a coordinated “healthy corner store” network has helped an increasing number of local storeowners stock healthy, affordable foods in Camden, New Jersey, a city with high rates of poverty and unemployment, and where most residents ...
Benjamin W. Chrisinger   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food Access, Food Deserts, and the Women, Infants, and Children Program

open access: yesJournal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2017
We examine the shopping behavior of Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) Program participants located in food deserts in the Greater Los Angeles area relative to peers in GLA located outside of food-desert boundaries.
Qi Wu   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Impact of a Non-profit Market on Food Store Choice and Shopping Experience: A Community Case Study

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2019
Research evaluating the impact of new food stores in “food deserts” have reported limited impact on eating and health outcomes of residents who live nearby.
Mengni Yao   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Urban Agriculture Extension in Florida: Barriers, Needs, and Opportunities

open access: yesJournal of Human Sciences and Extension, 2023
Much of the United States is urbanizing, increasing the importance of developing Extension programs geared toward urban audiences. There has been an increasing interest in urban agriculture (UA) in recent years as an outgrowth of the “local food ...
Catherine G. Campbell   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Design and Testing of a Text Message for Use as an Informational Nudge in a Novel Food Insecurity Intervention

open access: yesChallenges, 2023
Food insecurity is an ongoing problem in the U.S. with implications for health problems and social disadvantages. Past food insecurity intervention studies have targeted barriers to accessing healthy food.
Michael F. Royer, Christopher Wharton
doaj   +1 more source

The FINDING-Food Intervention: A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study Addressing Food Insecurity

open access: yesChallenges, 2023
Food insecurity is an economic and social condition involving limited or uncertain access to food. The problem of food insecurity in communities is influenced by economic conditions, food deserts, and barriers to accessing healthy food.
Michael F. Royer, Christopher Wharton
doaj   +1 more source

Changes in food access by mestizo communities associated with deforestation and agrobiodiversity loss in Ucayali, Peruvian Amazon

open access: yesFood Security, 2020
Few longitudinal studies link agricultural biodiversity, land use and food access in rural landscapes. In this paper, we test the hypothesis that, in a context of economic change, cash crop expansion is associated with deforestation, reduced ...
Genowefa Blundo‐Canto   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Food Security, Local Access to Healthy Foods, and Malnutrition [PDF]

open access: yesEcology of Food and Nutrition, 2021
Ecology of Food and Nutrition (EFN) promotes scholarly discussion and engagement on the holistic and cross-cultural dimensions of food and nutrition.
openaire   +2 more sources

Food Security and Climate Change: Differences in Impacts and Adaptation Strategies for Rural Communities in the Global South and North

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
This research highlights the mismatch between food security and climate adaptation literature and practice in the Global North and South by focusing on nested case studies in rural India and the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Subhashni Raj   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Food Access Deficiencies in Sub-saharan Africa: Prevalence and Implications for Agricultural Interventions

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2019
Our understanding of food security in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been hampered by limitations in the temporal and spatial representativeness of data. Food balance sheets provide scalable estimates of per capita food availability, but fail to represent ...
S. Fraval   +29 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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