Background Recent evidence indicates a widening gap in fruit and vegetable (F/V)
consumption between high-and low-income Americans. This gap is related, in part, to …

Food insecurity is a broad and serious public health issue in the United States, where many
people are reporting lack of access to healthy foods. The reduced availability of healthy …

Agritourism—visiting a working farm for education or recreation—may serve as a tool to
increase local food consumption as it often includes opportunities to purchase local food on …

This report provides an overview of local and regional food systems across several
dimensions. It details the latest economic information on local food producers, consumers …

Despite the growing popularity of local food, there is still no unified definition used across
the board. The lack of unified definition of local food can prevent effective marketing …

Most food-environment research has focused narrowly on select stores and restaurants.
There has been comparatively less attention to non-storefront food sources like farmers' …

Diet-related chronic disease is a public health epidemic in the United States. Concurrently,
conventional agricultural and food production methods deplete the nutritional content of …

Background Childhood obesity persists in the United States and is associated with serious
health problems. Higher rates of obesity among children from disadvantaged households …

Because supermarkets are a critical part of the community food environment, the purpose of
this paper is to examine the association between accessibility to the supermarket where …

Abstract Purpose: In November 2015, Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank
implemented a pilot phase of the Green Grocer mobile market, a program aimed at …