Library of Recent Documents
Many people ask me for documents about various subjects related to food justice and People’s Grocery’s work. So I’m starting a library of documents that are related to food justice, food security, sustainable food systems, grocery stores and community health. This library is available to anyone who is conducting research or starting a project of their own. You can submit a comment and upload your own documents as well.
1) Attracting Supermarkets to the Inner City.pdf This is a somewhat academic style document but it provides a lot of good data on inner-city food demand, the challenges to developing inner-city grocery stores and, interestinlgy, the rationale of planners for the absence of grocery stores in inner city areas.
2) Supermarket Access in Low-Income Communities.pdf This paper is part of a series of nutrition policy profiles prepared by Prevention Institute for the
Center for Health Improvement.
3) homeward bound.pdf This study overviews food security strategies with a focus on transportation needs and barriers as key factors.
4) USDA Supermarket study.pdf This study was conducted by the USDA and looks at supermarket characteristics and operating costs in low-income areas.
5) Linking Food and Transportation.doc This Policy Brief looks at the effect of transportation on food security and the food system and highlights case examples of how transportation barriers are being addressed
6) beyond food bank.pdf A white paper that I co-authored with Christine Ahn, formerly of Food First. Looks at the isse of food banks in achieving food sovereignty in low-income neighborhoods.
7) growing food in cities.pdf A report highlighting the benefits of urban agriculture. Written in the UK.
8) hunger and obesity.pdf This document looks at the paradox of simulataneous hunger and obesity in America.
9) Diet interventions for ethnic minority populations.pdf
10) Impacts of public markets on community health.doc A small portion of a study conducted by the Project for Public Spaces, Inc.
11) History of Food Insecurity in West Oakland.pdf
12) Social Compact West Oakland.pdf A “drill down” market study of West Oakland that captures data that other market studies have failed to do.
13) Low Income Consumer study.pdf A sample of a study that looks at marketing to low-income US food consumers in the decade ahead. A pretty corporate document, but it has some valuable information.
14) organic food demand.pdf A focus group study looking at organic food demand that involces caucasian and African-American shoppers.
15) Building Local Bay Area Economy.pdf A report developed by Bay Area Relocalize, The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, the International Forum and Globalization and others.
16) Working, Wages and Inequality In the East Bay.pdf A report conducted by the East Bay Alliance for a Sustainable Economy that looks at economic inequality in the East Bay Area.
