scholarly journals COVID-19 responses: Food policy councils are “stepping in, stepping up, and stepping back"

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
Anne Palmer ◽  
Abiodun Atoloye ◽  
Karen Bassarab ◽  
Larissa Calancie ◽  
Raychel Santo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Food Chain ◽  
Food System ◽  
Food Policy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Racial Equity ◽  
School Food ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Food Policy Councils

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, food policy councils (FPCs) have emerged as a critical struc¬ture for organizing community-based responses to multiple food system issues. Strong relationships with various food system stakeholders have proven essential in inspiring coordinated action. Using the early results of a Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future survey of FPCs (2020), we discuss some of the accomplishments and contributions that 118 FPCs have made toward addressing hunger and supporting producers, school food, food chain workers, racial equity, and resilience in the United States and in tribal nations.

scholarly journals Food Bank Donations in the United States: A Landscape Review of Federal Policies

Nutrients ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (12) ◽  
pp. 3764
Author(s):  
Katelin M. Hudak ◽  
Emily Friedman ◽  
Joelle Johnson ◽  
Sara E. Benjamin-Neelon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nutritional Quality ◽  
Food System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Healthy Food ◽  
Food Banks ◽  
Food Bank ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
Food And Beverage

Rates of food insecurity have increased substantially in the United States (US), and more families are turning to the charitable food system to help meet their needs. Prior studies have examined the nutritional quality of foods offered through food banks, but little is known about what government policies may shape the healthy food donation landscape. The purpose of this study was to review US federal policies that impact food and beverage donations to food banks and assess whether policies encourage healthy food donations. In spring 2020, two researchers independently reviewed federal food and beverage donation policies using predefined search terms in two legal databases. We identified six categories of policies based on the existing food donation literature and themes that emerged in the policy review. We identified 42 federal policies spanning six categories that addressed food and beverage donations to food banks. The largest category was “government programs,” with 19 (45%) policies. The next largest category was “donation via schools,” with 12 (29%) policies. However, no policies specifically addressed the nutritional quality of food donations. There is an opportunity for the federal government to strengthen food bank donation policies and improve the nutritional quality of donated foods and beverages.

Beyond home and school: community-based media and youth voice on pandemic life in the United States

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Rafi Santo ◽  
David Phelps ◽  
Colin Angevine ◽  
Alexandra Lotero ◽  
Lucy Herz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
School Community ◽  
The United States ◽  
Youth Voice ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Home And School

Analysis of GLBTQ Youth Community-Based Programs in the United States

2012 ◽  
Vol 59 (9) ◽  
pp. 1289-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth D. Allen ◽  
Phillip L. Hammack ◽  
Heather L. Himes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Youth Community ◽  
Glbtq Youth

scholarly journals Subnational mobility and consumption-based environmental accounting of US corn in animal protein and ethanol supply chains

2017 ◽  
Vol 114 (38) ◽  
pp. E7891-E7899 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy M. Smith ◽  
Andrew L. Goodkind ◽  
Taegon Kim ◽  
Rylie E. O. Pelton ◽  
Kyo Suh ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Supply Chain ◽  
Supply Chains ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Food System ◽  
The United States ◽  
Environmental Accounting ◽  
Animal Protein ◽  
Corn Production ◽  
Supply Networks

Corn production, and its associated inputs, is a relatively large source of greenhouse gas emissions and uses significant amounts of water and land, thus contributing to climate change, fossil fuel depletion, local air pollutants, and local water scarcity. As large consumers of this corn, corporations in the ethanol and animal protein industries are increasingly assessing and reporting sustainability impacts across their supply chains to identify, prioritize, and communicate sustainability risks and opportunities material to their operations. In doing so, many have discovered that the direct impacts of their owned operations are dwarfed by those upstream in the supply chain, requiring transparency and knowledge about environmental impacts along the supply chains. Life cycle assessments (LCAs) have been used to identify hotspots of environmental impacts at national levels, yet these provide little subnational information necessary for guiding firms’ specific supply networks. In this paper, our Food System Supply-Chain Sustainability (FoodS3) model connects spatial, firm-specific demand of corn purchasers with upstream corn production in the United States through a cost minimization transport model. This provides a means to link county-level corn production in the United States to firm-specific demand locations associated with downstream processing facilities. Our model substantially improves current LCA assessment efforts that are confined to broad national or state level impacts. In drilling down to subnational levels of environmental impacts that occur over heterogeneous areas and aggregating these landscape impacts by specific supply networks, targeted opportunities for improvements to the sustainability performance of supply chains are identified.

Access through Altruism: A Community-based Free Outpatient Surgery Program for the Working Poor in the United States

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 141-144
Author(s):  
HR Nolan ◽  
B Christie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Outpatient Surgery ◽  
Healthcare Access ◽  
Large Population ◽  
Surgical Care ◽  
The United States ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Uninsured Adults ◽  
One Year ◽  
Working Uninsured

Despite healthcare reform, a large population in the United States is without healthcare coverage. The Surgery for People in Need (SPIN) program offers free outpatient surgical procedures to working, uninsured adults. Taking nearly one year to construct, the program has been operational for three years and has performed 22 procedures. Free surgery programs can improve healthcare access by providing interventions to patients who otherwise have no outlet for surgical care.

A System of Services for the Mentally Retarded Offender

1975 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank J. Menolascino
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Mentally Retarded ◽  
The United States ◽  
Young Offender ◽  
Community Based ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Correctional Programs ◽  
Community Based Programs ◽  
Correctional System

Throughout the United States and Canada, community-based programs for the retarded are being expanded, as are alternative correctional programs for the young offender. But for the men tally retarded offender no such new approaches have been de vised ; he is still relegated to, and unwanted by, both the tradition al correctional system and the institutions for the retarded.

scholarly journals Abdominal aortic reconstruction in infected fields: Early results of the United States cryopreserved aortic allograft registry

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (5) ◽  
pp. 847-852 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audra A. Noel ◽  
Peter Gloviczki ◽  
Kenneth J. Cherry ◽  
Hazim Safi ◽  
Jerry Goldstone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Aortic Reconstruction ◽  
Aortic Allograft ◽  
Early Results ◽  
Abdominal Aortic
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