Our national and international food system has implications for a wide range of issues that are important across the political spectrum and include improving health outcomes, reducing environmental impacts, increasing social justice, fostering economic development, and even improving homeland security. This article focuses on healthy-food access, one of the most urgent food policy issues because of its social and economic effects, as well as its public health impacts. In 2010, thirty-six percent of Americans were obese and another thirty-three percent were overweight, while eight percent of Americans were diabetic and thirty-five percent suffered from pre-diabetes. Though food access is not perfectly correlated with public health outcomes, ...
The authors provide a history and overview of Federal food assistance efforts, especially food suppl...
Purpose of review: Food systems at all levels are experiencing various states of dysfunction and cri...
The local food movement has been booming over the last several years. The number of farmers’ markets...
An often-ignored contributor to poor health is lack of access to good quality, affordable healthy fo...
Our intent in this Article is not to delineate foods that are local or not local, nor is it to lioni...
Outlines how state and local policies on land use, planning, and community and economic development,...
This Article proposes a three-part approach to improve the food supply. Specifically, it explores go...
The Importance of Local Food Systems: A little known fact is that, generally speaking, food consumed...
Poor food choices have been shown to contribute to the rise of major chronic diseases, including ove...
Moral political action within a food system is vital to human health and survival in the Anthropocen...
Faced with growing rates of malnutrition, food environments play a key role in shaping eating habits...
Abstract: Government actors have an important role to play in creating healthy public policies and s...
Food deserts, places where residents lack nearby supermarkets, have received attention from the medi...
Graduation date: 2014The professed economic benefits of local food systems for communities and small...
While the United States boasts one of the most abundant food supplies in the world, disparities in ...
The authors provide a history and overview of Federal food assistance efforts, especially food suppl...
Purpose of review: Food systems at all levels are experiencing various states of dysfunction and cri...
The local food movement has been booming over the last several years. The number of farmers’ markets...
An often-ignored contributor to poor health is lack of access to good quality, affordable healthy fo...
Our intent in this Article is not to delineate foods that are local or not local, nor is it to lioni...
Outlines how state and local policies on land use, planning, and community and economic development,...
This Article proposes a three-part approach to improve the food supply. Specifically, it explores go...
The Importance of Local Food Systems: A little known fact is that, generally speaking, food consumed...
Poor food choices have been shown to contribute to the rise of major chronic diseases, including ove...
Moral political action within a food system is vital to human health and survival in the Anthropocen...
Faced with growing rates of malnutrition, food environments play a key role in shaping eating habits...
Abstract: Government actors have an important role to play in creating healthy public policies and s...
Food deserts, places where residents lack nearby supermarkets, have received attention from the medi...
Graduation date: 2014The professed economic benefits of local food systems for communities and small...
While the United States boasts one of the most abundant food supplies in the world, disparities in ...
The authors provide a history and overview of Federal food assistance efforts, especially food suppl...
Purpose of review: Food systems at all levels are experiencing various states of dysfunction and cri...
The local food movement has been booming over the last several years. The number of farmers’ markets...