Find It Here! Strategies to Promote Healthy Foods in Local Communities

This PolicyLink Report looks at neighborhoods and their access to healthy foods and examines why access matters. It identifies the populations that are most often affected by limited healthy options, mainly low-income and minority populations in both urban and rural areas, plus explores the importance of accessible transportation, cost issues, and challenges and solutions to closing the accessibility gap.  Potential solutions include bringing in new grocery stores, improving smaller stores and creating farmers markets.  Several case studies are highlighted in the report.

This comprehensive report – called “Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Promising Strategies to Improve Access to Fresh, Healthy Food and Transform Communities” -- looks at the past, present and future of the healthy foods movement; a must-see for any entity working toward creating healthy communities. Read the report