Neighborhood
Food Retailing
- Healthy Food Retailing Toolkit
This toolkit l focuses on increasing access to retail outlets that sell nutritious, affordable food in low-income communities of color. It provides background and context for the strategies as well as steps to develop new stores and improve exiting ones; it also describes additional options and lists resources.
http://www.policylink.org/EDTK/HealthyFoodRetailing/
- The Food Trust
This website promotes access to nutritious foods, describes programs and initiatives across the country and links to reports and resource on a variety of related topics.
http://www.thefoodtrust.org/
- What's Cooking in Your Food System. A Guide to Community Food Assessment
This guide explains Community Food Assessments, an imaginative way to determine needs and resources and promote collaboration on food issues. Includes case studies, surveys and tips for creating change
http://www.foodsecurity.org/pubs.html#books
- Searching for Healthy Food: The Food Landscape in California Cities and Counties
January 2007
Download [242k pdf file]
- Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Improving Access and Opportunities Through Food Retailing
Fall 2005
Download [2.6MB pdf file]
- Formula Business Restrictions
This web page has resources and descriptions of several communities that have adopted Formula Business Restrictions. Formula businesses include retail stores, restaurants, hotels and other establishments that are required by contract to adopt standardized services, methods of operation, decor, uniforms, architecture or other features virtually identical to businesses located in other communities. Several communities have banned certain types of formula businesses. These laws do not prevent a chain store from coming in, but they do require that the incoming chain not look or operate like any other branch in the country. This has proved a significant deterrent to chains, which generally refuse to veer from their standardized, cookie-cutter approach.
www.newrules.org/retail/formula.html
- Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Improving Access and Opportunities Through Food Retailing
Everyone benefits when all communities offer places where residents can buy affordable, healthy food. State and local governments have a vital role to play in making this happen. The PolicyLink report, Healthy Food, Healthy Communities, discusses how to improve community health by making healthy food readily available for purchase in all communities. The PolicyLink website for the report and other related information is:
www.policylink.org/Research/HealthyFood/
Download: Healthy Food, Healthy Communities [2.6MB pdf file]
- People's Grocery
The People's Grocery is a non-profit in West Oakland that uses a van to bring fresh produce and other organic foods to a community which otherwise has little access to such commodities.
sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/g/a/2005/03/09/
gree.DTL
More information about the People's Grocery is available at their website:
peoplesgrocery.org/mm.html
[ back to top... ]
|
