The SNAP Challenge: Communicating Food Security Capabilities through Anti-Hunger Advocacy

Hunt, Kathleen P.

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2018.082.007

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“…Food stamps and supplemental nutrition assistance programs (SNAP) are publicly funded and administered responses to food-related issues; however, not all individuals who face food insecurity qualify for or utilize these programs (Daponte 2000). Food stamps and SNAP can also restrict food choices including choices to eat fresher and healthier foods (Guthrie et al 2007;Hunt 2018) or local foods (Kellegrew et al 2018). Relatedly, most U.S. farmers markets (~60%) do not accept SNAP and/or EBT benefits (Kellegrew et al 2018).…”

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Measuring the Impacts of Community Innovations: the Little Free Farmstand in Geneva, New York

Talmage

Meyer

Rath

2020

Int. Journal of Com. WB

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Various community innovations can positively impact food insecurity and hunger, while also addressing food waste issues. This article focuses on a community innovation known as the Little Free Farmstand (LFF) of Geneva, New York. Little free approaches have appeared across the world to improve access to resources as well as promoting kindness in many communities. This case article undertakes an investigation of the impacts of two LFF's regarding food security and food waste in the City of Geneva. An applied mixed method approach using photojournalism, formal and informal data solicitation from community members, note-taking, and team reflection were undertaken to analyze the impacts of the LFFs. Despite limitations with the study methods discussed in this article, the LFFs demonstrated positive impacts indirectly and directly regarding decreasing food waste and improving access to free, healthy food. While the results of the two LFFs' impacts in the city are interesting, this study showcases accessible methods that other communities can use to measure the impacts of their own community innovations regarding food security and food waste. This study concludes by sharing the various challenges of the LFF project, especially regarding measuring community innovations' impacts. These challenges are separated into economic, social and environmental categories.

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