Overview

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"Food security" means that people have access, at all times, to enough food for an active, healthy life for all household members. At a minimum, this includes availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods and assured ability to acquire personally preferred foods in a socially acceptable way. CSREES addresses food security in many ways: through research, education, and extension work within the Land-Grant University System partnership; through federally funded nutrition education programs in the states; through a grant program that funds private nonprofits to address community food security issues; and through partnerships across USDA.

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In Focus

• Community Food Projects Competitive Grants fund proactive approaches to making communities more self-reliant at maintaining their food systems.
• USDA economic and job security programs help low-income people attain living wage jobs and self-sufficiency.
• USDA community food production and marketing activities assist projects that grow, process, and distribute food locally.
• CSREES engages in a variety of education and awareness activities to increase public knowledge about nutrition, food safety, and community food security.

Partnerships

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Events

• Competitive Grants Grantsmanship Workshops, Washington, DC/Salt Lake City, UT, September/October, 2008.

Selected Results and Impacts

• The Community Food Project funding opportunity funded numerous projects from 2001 through 2003.

Resources

• USDA Food and Nutrition Service.
• National Clearinghouse on Hunger and Community Food Security, World Hunger Year (WHY). Offers innovative solutions to hunger and poverty.
• Food Security in the United States, USDA Economic Research Service. Data on food security.


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Contacts

Elizabeth Tuckermanty