USDA Releases Study on Food Deserts
Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food—Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences: Report to Congress
Plus: The Wallace Center releases reaction to study and food access expert contact list
From the USDA website: "This report fills a request for a study of food deserts—areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food—from the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008. The report summarizes findings of a national-level assessment of the extent and characteristics of food deserts, analysis of the consequences of food deserts, lessons learned from related Federal programs, and a discussion of policy options for alleviating the effects of food deserts. Overall, findings show that a small percentage of consumers are constrained in their ability to access affordable nutritious food because they live far from a supermarket or large grocery store and do not have easy access to transportation."
Click here for expert reactions to the study and to view the expert contact list
National Good Food Network
A market-based approach to issues of food access
The National Good Food Network (NGFN), a project of the Wallace Center, works to scale up and increase access to "good food" -- food that is healthy, green, fair and affordable -- by connecting practitioners across the value chain to people, knowledge and funders.
The National Good Food Network has several Regional Lead Teams -- cross-sector multi-organizational teams working at the regional level -- whose work is dedicated to removing barriers to access of "good food".
Learn more about how the RLTs are working to increase access to good food
For more information on Policy at Wallace Center, contact:
Alan Hunt
Senior Program Associate
1621 North Kent St. Suite 1200
Arlington, VA 22209-2134
Phone: 703.525.9430 x681
Fax: 703.525.1744
ahunt@winrock.org
