Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences write by Michele Ver Ploeg. This book was released on 2010-02. Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 directed the U.S. Dept. of Agr. to conduct a 1-year study to assess the extent of areas with limited access to affordable and nutritious food, identify characteristics and causes of such areas, consider how limited access affects local populations, and outline recommend. to address the problem. This report presents the findings of the study, which include results from two conferences of national and internat. authorities on food deserts and a set of research studies. It also includes reviews of existing literature, a national-level assessment of access to large grocery stores and supermarkets, analysis of the economic and public health effects of limited access, and a discussion of existing policy interventions. Illus.
The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts
The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts write by National Research Council. This book was released on 2009-07-02. The Public Health Effects of Food Deserts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the United States, people living in low-income neighborhoods frequently do not have access to affordable healthy food venues, such as supermarkets. Instead, those living in "food deserts" must rely on convenience stores and small neighborhood stores that offer few, if any, healthy food choices, such as fruits and vegetables. The Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) convened a two-day workshop on January 26-27, 2009, to provide input into a Congressionally-mandated food deserts study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service. The workshop, summarized in this volume, provided a forum in which to discuss the public health effects of food deserts.
Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food-Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences
Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food-Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food-Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences write by Michele Ver Ploeg. This book was released on 2015-02-16. Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food-Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India
Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India write by Raghunathan, Kalyani. This book was released on 2020-03-11. Affordability of nutritious diets in rural India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Malnutrition is endemic in India. In 2015-16 some 38% of preschool children were stunted and 21% were wasted, while more than half of Indian mothers and children were anemic. There are many posited explanations for the high rates of malnutrition in India, but surprisingly few discuss the role of Indian diets, particularly the affordability of nutritious diets given low wages and the significant structural problems facing India’s agricultural sector. This study was undertaken to address knowledge gaps around the affordability of nutritious diets in rural India. To do so we used nationally representative rural price and wage data to estimate the least cost means of satisfying India-specific dietary recommendations, referred to as the Cost of a Recommended Diet (CoRD), and assess the affordability of this diet relative to male and female wages for unskilled laborers. Although we find that dietary costs increased substantially over 2001-2011 for both men and women, rural wage rates increased more rapidly, implying that nutritious diets became substantially more affordable over time. However, in absolute terms nutritious diets in 2011 were still expensive relative to unskilled wages, constituting approximately 50-60% of male and about 70-80% of female daily wages, and were often even higher relative to minimum wages earned from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA). Since many poor households have significant numbers of dependents and substantial non-food expenditure requirements, it follows that nutritious diets are often highly unaffordable for the rural poor; we estimate that 45-64% of the rural poor cannot afford a nutritious diet that meets India’s national food-based dietary guidelines. Our results point to the need to more closely monitor food prices through a nutritional lens, and to shift India’s existing food policies away from their heavy bias towards cereals. Achieving nutritional security in India requires a much more holistic focus on improving the affordability of the full range of nutritious food groups and ensuring that economic growth results in sustained income growth for the poor.
Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts
Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts write by Paula Dutko. This book was released on 2012. Characteristics and Influential Factors of Food Deserts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introd. -- Literature -- Method for defining and measuring food deserts -- Descriptive analyses -- Results: comparing food desert tracts with all other tracts -- Changes in food desert tract characteristics over time -- Regression analysis: methodology -- Conclusion -- References.
