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Evidence-based strategies to build community food security

2005; Elsevier BV; Volume: 105; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jada.2004.12.015

1878-3570

Christine McCullum, Ellen Desjardins, Vivica I. Kraak, Patricia Ladipo, Helen E. Costello,

Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet

Over the past decade, various entities within the United States ( 1 Winne M. Joseph H. Fisher A. Community Food Security A Guide to Concept, Design and Implementation. Community Food Security Coalition, Venice, CA2000 Google Scholar , 2 Hora M. Tick J. From Farm to Table. Capital Area Food Bank, Washington, DC2001 Google Scholar , 3 Cohen B. Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit. United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC2002 Google Scholar , 4 McCullum C. Pelletier D. Barr D. Wilkins J. Use of a participatory planning process as a way to build community food security. J Am Diet Assoc. 2002; 102: 962-967 Google Scholar , 5 Hamm M.W. Bellows A.C. Community food security and nutrition educators. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2003; 35: 37-43 Google Scholar ), Canada ( 6 Toronto Food Policy Council. Reducing Urban Hunger in Ontario: Policy Responses to Support the Transition from Food Charity to Local Food Security. Toronto Food Policy Council Discussion Paper Series, Discussion Paper No. 1, Toronto Food Policy Council, Toronto; 1994. Google Scholar , 7 Ontario Public Health Association Food Security Workgroup Position Paper. A Systemic Approach to Community Food Security: A Role for Public Health. Ontario, Canada: Ontario Public Health Association; 2002. Google Scholar ), and Europe ( 6 Toronto Food Policy Council. Reducing Urban Hunger in Ontario: Policy Responses to Support the Transition from Food Charity to Local Food Security. Toronto Food Policy Council Discussion Paper Series, Discussion Paper No. 1, Toronto Food Policy Council, Toronto; 1994. Google Scholar , 8 Pederson R.M. Urban Food and Nutrition Security. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark2001 Google Scholar ) have applied a food systems approach to build community food security. This approach to building community food security requires an understanding of how communities interact with resources in their social and physical environments over extended periods of time. It also uses strategies that address broad systemic issues affecting food availability, affordability, accessibility, and quality ( 1 Winne M. Joseph H. Fisher A. Community Food Security A Guide to Concept, Design and Implementation. Community Food Security Coalition, Venice, CA2000 Google Scholar , 2 Hora M. Tick J. From Farm to Table. Capital Area Food Bank, Washington, DC2001 Google Scholar , 3 Cohen B. Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit. United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC2002 Google Scholar , 4 McCullum C. Pelletier D. Barr D. Wilkins J. Use of a participatory planning process as a way to build community food security. J Am Diet Assoc. 2002; 102: 962-967 Google Scholar , 5 Hamm M.W. Bellows A.C. Community food security and nutrition educators. J Nutr Educ Behav. 2003; 35: 37-43 Google Scholar , 6 Toronto Food Policy Council. Reducing Urban Hunger in Ontario: Policy Responses to Support the Transition from Food Charity to Local Food Security. Toronto Food Policy Council Discussion Paper Series, Discussion Paper No. 1, Toronto Food Policy Council, Toronto; 1994. Google Scholar , 7 Ontario Public Health Association Food Security Workgroup Position Paper. A Systemic Approach to Community Food Security: A Role for Public Health. Ontario, Canada: Ontario Public Health Association; 2002. Google Scholar , 8 Pederson R.M. Urban Food and Nutrition Security. World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, Denmark2001 Google Scholar , 9 Brown K.H. Carter A. Urban Agriculture and Community Food Security in the United States. Community Food Security Coalition, Venice, CA2002 Google Scholar , 10 MacRae R.J. Hill S.B. Henning J. Bentley A.J. Policies, programs, and regulations to support transition to sustainable agriculture in Canada. Am J Altern Agriculture. 1990; 5: 76-92 Google Scholar ). The purpose of this article is to provide dietetics professionals with a three-stage continuum of evidence-based strategies and activities that applies a food systems approach to building community food security. C. McCullum is an assistant professor of health promotion and behavior sciences, University of Texas, School of Public Health, Houston. E. Desjardins is a community nutritionist, Region of Waterloo Public Health, Ontario, Canada. V. I. Kraak is a nutrition consultant, Washington, DC. P. Ladipo is a breastfeeding project coordinator, Cornell University, Division of Nutritional Sciences, Ithaca, NY. H. Costello is a food security coordinator, University of New Hampshire, Concord.