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An Examination of Food Handling Practices at Food Pantries
The latest edition of the Food and Drug Administration's Model Food Code provides the definition of an acceptable donated food item but does not specify any safe storage or handling standards for these items. Virginia has not adopted this edition, but its own food handling regulations provide …
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The Exploratory Study of Consumers' Experience of Using Food Pantries and Their Self-Sufficiency and Quality of Life
BACKGROUND: Food insecurity and consumers' chronic dependence on social welfare designed for emergency use has raised concern for food banks and food pantry directors who are interested in consumers' experience of using food pantries and their self-sufficiency during the period of relying on food …
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"It's the Resources": Work, Governance, and the Institutionalization of an Emergency Food Network
… of loosely connected organizations such as food pantries and soup kitchens constitute the emergency food network. Organizations in this network provide a critical source of food to millions of households each year. This dissertation examines how organizations in one city-level emergency food …
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Examining Contributors and Solutions to Prevent and Manage Food Waste in Households with Low Incomes and the Emergency Food System within the U.S.
… United States (U.S.), up to 40% of the entire food supply is lost or wasted, which contributes to negative environmental, economic, and social outcomes, with the majority of food waste occurring in the retail and consumer sectors of the food supply chain. Concurrently, 10.5% of U.S. households …
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Empirical analyses of the social safety net
Chapter 1: Food Pantry Policies and Nutritional Quality: Applying the Healthy Eating Index to Food PantriesFood pantries are a significant source of food support for families suffering from food insecurity in Minnesota, but studies have found shortcomings in the nutritional quality of the bundles …
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Food Security, Diet Quality and Health of Food Pantry Participants in the North End of Hartford
<p> Food insecurity is an increasingly urgent problem in the United States. Food security is defined as having “consistent access to enough food for active healthy living.” Those who are food insecure typically lack access to healthy food, especially fresh fruits and vegetables, facing increased …
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Use of emergency food by food pantry clients in Fairfax, Virginia
Demand for emergency food at food pantries nationwide has increased rapidly during the past 15 years. Food pantries have varied policies for distributing food to clients. Clients of a food pantry in Fairfax, Virginia, were surveyed to determine their satisfaction with the food they received and to …
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The Perception of the Food Pantry Customer Receiving Diabetes-Friendly Food Boxes
Food insecurity is on the rise in the United States, and food insecure individuals are more likely to have diabetes than those who are food secure. Diabetes self-management may be impaired as a result of food insecurity, and there are limited studies that examine the effect food distributed by food …
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Implementing food pantry nutrition policies: Perspectives from the field
<p>The charitable food system includes food pantries and are often used by individuals and households who are food insecure (Kuhns & Norotny, 2021; Seligman & Berkowitz, 2019; Sangye, 2013). Adults with any level of food insecurity have a 43% to 53% greater risk of developing a chronic disease than …
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Too hungry to study : a phenomenological study examining college students experiencing food insecurity.
Food insecurity occurs when individuals do not have access to nutritional food on a routine basis, and it is a growing trend among today's college students. A 2018 survey conducted by HOPE Research Center provided an alarming statistic about this issue. The report indicated, "45% of student …
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Are Community Food Assistance Programs Meeting the Needs Of Food-Insecure Households in Pittsburgh's North Side Neighborhoods?
… with three householders and three community food program managers were conducted to explore if food assistance programs meet the needs of residents in Pittsburgh's North Side neighborhoods. Findings show that insufficient income is the main factor contributing to household food insecurity. …
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Exploring NCCARE360's Role in Addressing Food Insecurity: Onboarding Successes, Challenges, and Referral Outcomes Among Community-Based Organizations in the Piedmont Triad Region
… coordinated care referral platform, to address food insecurity. A mixed methods approach was used to address the study's objectives. Focus groups explored the barriers to onboarding and retention that CBOs experience as well as the facilitators that keep CBOs active and engaged with NCCARE360. …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… dissertation tracks the remarkable growth of food assistance in the U.S. over the past fifteen years and asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become …
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Addressing barriers to food access among university employees: reducing stigma and raising awareness through a community-based pilot intervention
… global population experiences moderate to severe food insecurity, affecting individuals across cultures, regions, and socioeconomic backgrounds. The city of Fort Collins, Colorado is home to Colorado State University (CSU), which includes a large population of both university students and …
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Bridging the Gap: Community Gardens as a Supplement to Senior Adult Food Assistance Programs
<p>Food insecurity and access to nutrition-rich food for senior adults receiving food assistance is an ever-growing concern in the United States. For households that lack accessible food, the availability of alternative sources of nutrition such as community gardens could be critically important to …
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Using key informant interviews to better understand differences in how local health departments inspect school share tables
Food waste squanders many natural resources, which is problematic with an already prevalent food insecure population. In the US, eleven million children live in food-insecure homes. Food recovery methods such as share tables, places where children place unconsumed school food and beverage items …
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Examining food acquisition behaviors and diet quality in adults
Food acquisition is the process of obtaining food. Food acquisition can be conceptualized across an ecological framework and includes the community food environment and the home food environment. Food is often initially obtained within a community environment, including from food-at-home retailers …
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Large-scale optimization for green logistics and stochastic resource allocation for food security
… management and policy analysis problems in food supply chain systems utilizing large-scale optimization, stochastic resource allocation, and data-analytics methodologies. We focused on three main research questions: 1) How can retailers build green, efficient last-mile logistics system when …