This document outlines a regional approach to improving healthy food access in underserved communities in Manatee and Sarasota Counties, Florida. It demonstrates the benefits of a regional collaboration, highlights the role of community-based participatory research in developing solutions, and defines food deserts. Key elements included interviewing stakeholders, holding focus groups, participatory photo projects, and surveys to engage residents. The results informed action plans through a cross-county steering committee to increase access to healthy and affordable food.
Natsayi Nembaware, Senior Technical Advisor for Nutrition, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) discussed ADRA's Title II Food Security program in Madagascar known as Asotry to provide pre- and post-natal care coupled with infant nutrition and health in the first 1,000 days from conception on at the CCIH Capitol Hill Briefing in July 2018.
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Natsayi Nembaware, Senior Technical Advisor for Nutrition, Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA) discussed ADRA's Title II Food Security program in Madagascar known as Asotry to provide pre- and post-natal care coupled with infant nutrition and health in the first 1,000 days from conception on at the CCIH Capitol Hill Briefing in July 2018.
By Golaum Faruque and Quazi Kabir, WorldFish
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http://waterandfood.org/ganges-conference/
Predictive Analytics World, the leading vendor-neutral predictive analytics conference, is holding its forth annual conference this November, 3rd-4th in Berlin, Germany at Estrel Hotel. PAW focuses on concrete examples of applied predictive analytics. Join PAW Berlin to learn exactly how top practitioners deploy predictive analytics, and the business impact it delivers.
The Future Thought Leaders panel discussions of 2017 kicked off on April 21st at Oceanside’s Star Theatre. Labor leader Dolores Huerta and Food Democracy Now! founder Dave Murphy were among the distinguished panelists who weighed in on access to affordable and nutritious food at all economic levels.
Presentation used by Amanda Behrens, Project Manager at the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future during the workshop titled "Knowing you Make a Difference: Community Food Security Assessment and Evaluation"
This research was performed for the University of Washington graduate course: Design Thinking Studio. The content of this presentation is on the topic of nutritional health in urban Seattle.
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Carolyn Zezima, Director of Food and Nutrition Initiatives, Communities IMPACT Diabetes Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Despite increasing recognition that fresh, healthy, local foods are scarce in low-income communities, and the creation of a number of healthy food initiatives targeting these communities, historically underserved communities still lack novel, profitable, and sustainable businesses that supply healthy, affordable and taste-satisfying foods. Bringing together the business and public health sectors, Communities IMPACT Diabetes Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine invited business students to submit concepts and plans for viable, market and community-driven business solutions to one of our most pressing public health needs: healthy, affordable food in underserved communities. The proposed enterprises must have served communities with limited availability to healthy foods, be tailored to the particular assets and challenges in the communities, and must be developed in consultation with target communities. Proposals were judged by a panel of experts in business, food and local government. Teams competed for $25,000 in start-up funds and other business support services.
Social Marketing plan to increase consumption of fruits and veggies among minority population in E Tampa; purpose: to reduce incidence of obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
Jerusha Klemperer's Health | Tech | Food Speaking pointsLuminary Labs
Jerusha Klemperer, of Slow Food, provided these speaking points to stimulate discussion at the Health | Tech | Food event on February 8, 2011 in New York City.
Predictive Analytics World, the leading vendor-neutral predictive analytics conference, is holding its forth annual conference this November, 3rd-4th in Berlin, Germany at Estrel Hotel. PAW focuses on concrete examples of applied predictive analytics. Join PAW Berlin to learn exactly how top practitioners deploy predictive analytics, and the business impact it delivers.
The Future Thought Leaders panel discussions of 2017 kicked off on April 21st at Oceanside’s Star Theatre. Labor leader Dolores Huerta and Food Democracy Now! founder Dave Murphy were among the distinguished panelists who weighed in on access to affordable and nutritious food at all economic levels.
Presentation used by Amanda Behrens, Project Manager at the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future during the workshop titled "Knowing you Make a Difference: Community Food Security Assessment and Evaluation"
This research was performed for the University of Washington graduate course: Design Thinking Studio. The content of this presentation is on the topic of nutritional health in urban Seattle.
Engaging Social Entrepreneurs in Community-Based Participatory Solutions to F...Carolyn Zezima
2012 ASFS/AFHVS/SAFN Conference Global Gateways and Local Connections: Cities, Agriculture, and the Future of Food Systems
Carolyn Zezima, Director of Food and Nutrition Initiatives, Communities IMPACT Diabetes Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Despite increasing recognition that fresh, healthy, local foods are scarce in low-income communities, and the creation of a number of healthy food initiatives targeting these communities, historically underserved communities still lack novel, profitable, and sustainable businesses that supply healthy, affordable and taste-satisfying foods. Bringing together the business and public health sectors, Communities IMPACT Diabetes Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine invited business students to submit concepts and plans for viable, market and community-driven business solutions to one of our most pressing public health needs: healthy, affordable food in underserved communities. The proposed enterprises must have served communities with limited availability to healthy foods, be tailored to the particular assets and challenges in the communities, and must be developed in consultation with target communities. Proposals were judged by a panel of experts in business, food and local government. Teams competed for $25,000 in start-up funds and other business support services.
Social Marketing plan to increase consumption of fruits and veggies among minority population in E Tampa; purpose: to reduce incidence of obesity and Type 2 Diabetes
Jerusha Klemperer's Health | Tech | Food Speaking pointsLuminary Labs
Jerusha Klemperer, of Slow Food, provided these speaking points to stimulate discussion at the Health | Tech | Food event on February 8, 2011 in New York City.
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Smartfood- Good for you - the planet - the farmer by Joanna Kane-Potaka, Assi...ICRISAT
This was brought together in a holistic approach with a recommended focus on Smart Food – food that is defined as good for you (nutritious and healthy), good for the planet (environmentally sustainable) and good for the farmer. It was highly recommended to learn from all the interventions suggested but to not implement these in silos. Instead to find solutions that fulfil all the criteria of Smart Food. This was presented by Joanna Kane-Potaka, Assistant Director General, External Relations, ICRISAT. She explained how development had focused on food security when stopping mass starvation was needed, later with the recognition of hidden hunger, nutrition security was added and now the UN talks about sustainable diets – diets sustainable on the environment. The recommendation is that the focus now needs to be on Smart Food – food that fulfils all criteria of being good for you, the plant and the farmer.
2. Demonstrate the benefit of a regional approach to
increasing healthy food access
Highlight the role of Community Based Participatory
Research in developing solutions to healthy food access
Objectives
Define food deserts
3. USDA – Designated Food Desert Census Tracts in Manatee and Sarasota Counties
Low Income and Low
Access at 1 and 10 miles
4. Percent of adults who live within ½ mile of a
healthy food retailer
25% 27%
Manatee Sarasota
5. Percent of adults who eat at least 5 servings of
fruits and vegetables per day
17% 18%
Manatee Sarasota
6. Percent of adults who are overweight or obese
62% 58%
Manatee Sarasota
7. Develop high-
impact solutionsShare best
practices
Maximize
resources
Reduce
duplication
Benefits of
Regional
Approach
Maximize limited
staff time
13. Cindy Sloan
Director, Food Bank of
Manatee
Lawrence
Livingston
Reverend, Eternity Temple
Church
KeyInformantInterviews
Examples from Manatee County
Pat Stream
Principal, Samoset
Elementary School
Yvonne Daniels
Deputy, Manatee County
Sheriff’s Office
14. KeyInformantInterviews
Examples from Sarasota County
Lorna Alston
General Manager, North
Sarasota
Erin Bryce
Community Outreach
Coordinator, City of North Port
Victoria Brown
CEO, Dollar Dynasty, Inc
Jenna Jones
Director Of Nutrition Education
and Programs, All Faiths Food
Bank
23. SAM’s, is economical, but
bags of vegetables are too
large and I end up throwing
food away.
Photo-Voice
“I would like to find more
economic and smaller
packages of vegetables in
supermarkets closer to my
home.
Supermarkets, closer to my
home, sell smaller bags of
vegetables, but they are
higher priced.”
24. Photo-Voice
“I would like for the flea
market at Tuttle and
Ringling to have a larger
variety of fruits and
vegetables, as well as,
better quality like these
which I had to buy in the
Red Barn in Bradenton
which is much farther from
my home.”
25. Photo-Voice
“Look at that, that’s sad right there. That’s what my fridge and cabinet always
look like. I don’t have a car, so I gotta walk to the store. I would go to a
pantry, but I can’t get there. I do have a lot of peanut butter. People are
always giving me peanut butter. Sometimes I just eat it with a spoon for
dinner.”
30. Survey Methodology
Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER)
Repurposed from
an emergency
response tool, to a
community
engagement tool
31. Choose census
tracts
Survey seven
randomly selected
homes
Complete 168-210
surveys
Randomly select
30 census blocks
Survey Methodology
Community Assessment for Public Health Emergency Response (CASPER)