scholarly journals The City of Riverside Food System Map and Healthy Food Accessibility Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josphat Mutunga
Keyword(s):  
Food System ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Food Accessibility ◽  
Accessibility Analysis ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Food Bank Donations in the United States: A Landscape Review of Federal Policies

Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 3764
Author(s):  
Katelin M. Hudak ◽  
Emily Friedman ◽  
Joelle Johnson ◽  
Sara E. Benjamin-Neelon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
Food System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Food Banks ◽  
Food Bank ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Food And Beverage

Rates of food insecurity have increased substantially in the United States (US), and more families are turning to the charitable food system to help meet their needs. Prior studies have examined the nutritional quality of foods offered through food banks, but little is known about what government policies may shape the healthy food donation landscape. The purpose of this study was to review US federal policies that impact food and beverage donations to food banks and assess whether policies encourage healthy food donations. In spring 2020, two researchers independently reviewed federal food and beverage donation policies using predefined search terms in two legal databases. We identified six categories of policies based on the existing food donation literature and themes that emerged in the policy review. We identified 42 federal policies spanning six categories that addressed food and beverage donations to food banks. The largest category was “government programs,” with 19 (45%) policies. The next largest category was “donation via schools,” with 12 (29%) policies. However, no policies specifically addressed the nutritional quality of food donations. There is an opportunity for the federal government to strengthen food bank donation policies and improve the nutritional quality of donated foods and beverages.

scholarly journals Phoenix Rising: The Evolution of Holyoke’s Collaborative Organizing for Healthy Food Resilience

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 63S-69S
Author(s):  
Catherine Sands ◽  
Neftali Duran ◽  
Laura Christoph ◽  
Carol Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Low Income ◽  
Food System ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Power Sharing ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
Local Leadership ◽  
Safe Spaces ◽  
Community Power ◽  
Community Representation

In the Holyoke Food & Fitness Policy Council (HFFPC) case study, the challenges of providing equitable multistakeholder organizing are examined. The importance of housing the work in the community, power sharing, and having community representation in the leadership is made clear. The HFFPC partnership began with vigor, encountered challenges of trust, transparency, aligned goals and values; it dissolved, and reformed. Because it began with shared values of strong communities and healthy people, the partnership continues to evolve, build local leadership, change narratives, and articulate the need for racial equity in their food system, while shifting local systems and policies that frame who has access to healthy food and safe spaces to exercise in a low-income Latino community.

scholarly journals Exploring Food Literacy Domains in an Adult Samoan Population

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3587
Author(s):  
Grace Kammholz ◽  
Dana Craven ◽  
Ramona Boodoosingh ◽  
Safua Akeli Amaama ◽  
Jyothi Abraham ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Food Systems ◽  
Food System ◽  
Communicable Disease ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Food Storage ◽  
Policy Action ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Convenience Sample ◽  
Environmental Interventions ◽  
Food Literacy

Samoan food systems have undergone a dramatic nutrition transition, with dietary patterns changing concurrently with increased rates of obesity and non-communicable disease. Whilst policy action and environmental interventions play an important role in improving access to and consumption of healthy food, the success of these relies on a greater understanding of individuals’ food knowledge and behaviours. This study aimed to explore these behaviours using the construct of food literacy in an adult Samoan population. A cross-sectional interviewer-administered questionnaire of a convenience sample of 150 adult Samoans (≥20 years) assessed the four domains of food literacy: plan/manage, select, prepare, and eat. Participants generally plan to include healthy food (87%) and budget money for food (87%). The majority know where to find nutrition labels (68%), of which 43% always use them to inform their food choices. Participants were mostly confident with cooking skills, although food storage practices require further investigation. Over 90% agreed or strongly agreed that food impacts health, although understanding of the Pacific Guidelines for Healthy Living was lacking. Understanding the ability of Samoans to plan/manage, select, prepare, and eat food is an important consideration for future interventions aiming to assist this population in navigating the modern-day food system.

scholarly journals Sodium Reduction and Consumption: the Change Between City, Food and Citizenship

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Sandra Maria Souza de Carvalho ◽  
Marcelo Calderari Miguel ◽  
Vitorino Fontenele Freire
Keyword(s):  
Blood Pressure ◽  
Cardiovascular System ◽  
Sodium Intake ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Sodium Reduction ◽  
Espírito Santo ◽  
Theoretical Assumptions ◽  
Espirito Santo ◽  
The City ◽  
State Schools

This study analyzes the salt / sodium in food, in public policies and health. In this way, it proposes to provide subsidies around the concepts of the importance of the city in the construction of healthy food. The purpose of this review is to discuss the constraints, reflecting on them through theoretical assumptions about the promotion of citizenship and the pasteurization of taste / flavors. Food in society raises the integration of actions, actors and various social spaces, such as: State, schools, associations, businessmen in order to excel, consistent and efficient, by an educating city. In the context of the state of Espírito Santo, for two years, the law 10.369/2015 banned salt shakers at bars and restaurants in Espírito Santo for two years. In this way, research shows that excessive sodium intake (which raises blood pressure and affects the cardiovascular system) brings several complications that can last for many years or even a lifetime.Redução e Consumo de Sódio: Trama entre Cidade, Alimentação e CidadaniaEste estudo analisar o sal/sódio na alimentação, nas políticas públicas e saúde. Desse modo, propõe fornecer subsídios em torno dos conceitos da importância da cidade na construção da alimentação saudável. O objetivo desta revisão é discutir os condicionantes, refletindo sobre eles por meio de pressuposições teóricas sobre a promoção de cidadania e da pasteurização de gosto/sabores. A alimentação na sociedade suscita integração das ações, dos atores e dos diversos espaços sociais, como: Estado, escolas, associações, empresários de modo a primar, consistente e eficiente, por uma cidade educadora. No contexto capixaba, vigou por dois anos a lei 10.369/2015 que proibia saleiros em mesas de bares e restaurantes do Espírito Santo sendo essa uma marco. Desta forma, a pesquisa demonstra que a ingestão excessiva de sódio (que eleva a pressão arterial e afeta o sistema cardiovascular) traz diversas complicações que podem perdurar por muitos anos ou até mesmo a vida toda.

The Urban Agriculture Fix

2020 ◽  
pp. 93-110
Author(s):  
Joshua Sbicca
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Urban Agriculture ◽  
Food System ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Sustainable Food ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
The City ◽  
Sustainable Food System

When urban agriculture becomes a sustainability initiative with institutional backing, it can drive green gentrification even when its advocates are well intentioned and concerned about the possible exclusion of urban farmers and residents. This chapter explores these tensions through the notion of an urban agriculture fix, which I apply to a case in Denver, Colorado. Urban farmers accessed land more easily after the Great Recession and as a result were a force for displacement and at risk of displacement as the city adopted sustainable food system plans, the housing market recovered, and green gentrification spread. This case suggests the importance of explaining how political economy and culture combine to drive neighborhood disinvestment and economic marginalization, which can compel the entrance of urban agriculture due to its perceived low cost and potential high return for local residents. Yet, while urban agriculture may provide some short-term benefits, it may ultimately be entangled in some of the long-term harms of green gentrification.

scholarly journals Every City a Food Growing City? What Food Growing Schools London Reveals about City Strategies for Food System Sustainability

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 2924 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah Pitt ◽  
Mat Jones ◽  
Emma Weitkamp
Keyword(s):  
Success Factors ◽  
Food System ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Mixed Methods Case Study ◽  
Local Actors ◽  
Staged Approach ◽  
System Sustainability ◽  
High Level ◽  
The City

Cities have emerged as leaders in food system innovation and transformation, but their potential can be limited by the absence of supportive governance arrangements. This study examined the value of Food Growing Schools London (FGSL) as a programme seeking city-wide change through focusing on one dimension of the food system. Mixed methods case study research sought to identify high-level success factors and challenges. Findings demonstrate FGSL’s success in promoting food growing by connecting and amplifying formerly isolated activities. Schools valued the programme’s expertise and networking opportunities, whilst strategic engagement facilitated new partnerships linking food growing to other policy priorities. Challenges included food growing’s marginality amongst priorities that direct school and borough activity. Progress depended on support from individual local actors so varied across the city. London-wide progress was limited by the absence of policy levers at the city level. Experience from FGSL highlights how city food strategies remain constrained by national policy contexts, but suggests they may gain traction through focusing on well-delineated, straightforward activities that hold public appeal. Sustainability outcomes might then be extended through a staged approach using this as a platform from which to address other food issues.

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