Information appears in the following order: Center posts by year, followed by posts from other organizations in alphabetical order. Site navigation tips
”Food Preferences of Users of the Emergency Food System”, published in The Journal of Hunger & Environmental Nutrition, examines food and beverage preferences of emergency food program (EFP) clients of the Food Bank of Central New York (Food Bank). Findings suggest that food pantry clients prefer to receive meat/poultry/fish, vegetables, and fruit over soda, candy, and snack foods.
More than a decade ago, a nutrition paradox was first reported. According to national data, those living in poverty could experience simultaneously high levels of food insecurity (a condition of food insufficiency and undernutrition) and high levels of obesity (a condition of overnutrition).
Too often reducing hunger and promoting healthy eating among children are viewed as competing interests in the federal child nutrition programs. This paper shows that they can be mutually reinforcing and complementary strategies. Expanding participation in federal nutrition programs reduces childhood hunger and improves children’s diets.
A Framework for Understanding Food Insecurity: An Antihunger Approach / A Food Systems Approach reports on the concept and prevalence of food insecurity.
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) has identified seven essential strategies for achieving President Obama’s goal to end childhood hunger in this country by 2015. The goals, explained in detail in this paper, include:
• Restoring economic growth and create jobs with better wages for lower-income workers.
• Raising the incomes of the lowest-income families.
Hunger in Your State: A guide for producing state-level reports contains the basic data and guidance for producing hunger reports for each state in the nation.
Technical reports, survey tools, articles, and research reports on community and household food security in the U.S., produced by the Economic Research Service (ERS) of the USDA.
"Urban Agriculture and Community Food Security in the United States: Farming from the City Center to the Urban Fringe" was prepared by the Urban Agriculture Committee of the Community Food Security Coalition to raise awareness of the ways that urban agriculture can respond to food insecurity.
