This introductory toolkit from Policy Link provides information on four popular strategies used to help low-income and communities of color increase access to healthy, fresh, and affordable food. The toolkit helps you decide among Grocery Store Development, Corner Stores, Farmers’ Markets, and Urban Agriculture and Community Gardens programs and provides many of resources on how to get started. It includes research, data and mapping, and how to choose a tool. Great resource for those just starting out.
A new study from the American Journal of Public Health documents that signage can prevent teens from buying soda in four Baltimore corner stores. Interestingly, it is not the calorie count that was the most persuasive information–it was the amount of time it would take to burn off the soda by jogging that stopped the teens from purchasing the sugary beverages.
