Publications And Factsheets

Healthy Food, Healthy Communities: Promising Strategies to Improve Access to Fresh, Healthy Food and Transform Communities, a PolicyLink report, lifts up emerging solutions that can improve health, spark economic development, and help transform underserved communities into communities of opportunity.

HealthyFood thumbnailHealthy Food For All: Building Equitable and Sustainable Food Systems in Detroit and Oakland, commissioned by the Fair Food Foundation, shows that although our food system is unhealthy and unsustainable, successes driven by residents and advocates are cropping up  -- proving that the movement for equitable access to healthy food is gaining strength every day. 


"There is no question that low-income communities of color with poor access to healthy foods are getting hit worst by the obesity and diabetes crises. If we are to close this health gap, we must expand access to fresh and healthy food options in underserved neighborhoods. Both the First Lady's national childhood obesity campaign and President Obama's 2011 budget signal a strong commitment to bringing healthy food—and good, long-term jobs—to communities that have been without for far too long."  
 
Judith Bell, PolicyLink President

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