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Lessons From States & Localities |
Policy Solutions To The ‘Grocery Gap’
Allison Karpyn1,*,
Miriam Manon2,
Sarah Treuhaft3,
Tracey Giang4,
Caroline Harries5 and
Kate McCoubrey6
1 Allison Karpyn (akarpyn{at}thefoodtrust.org) is director of research and evaluation at the Food Trust, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
2 Miriam Manon is a project coordinator at the Food Trust.
3 Sarah Treuhaft is a senior associate at PolicyLink, a national research and action institute, in Oakland, California.
4 Tracey Giang is a senior associate at the Food Trust.
5 Caroline Harries is a program manager at the Food Trust.
6 Kate McCoubrey is a former intern at the Food Trust.
In 2001 the Food Trust, a nonprofit organization committed to ensuring access to affordable, nutritious food, focused attention on the lack of access to healthy foods in Philadelphia by creating food access maps and convening a task force. The campaign led to the creation of a statewide initiative that to date has funded seventy-eight fresh food outlets in Pennsylvania, increasing food access for 500,000 children and adults. This success has led to interest from other states and the federal government in expanding the initiative. Here we present the Food Trust’s five-step framework for increasing access to fresh, healthy food in other locales.
Key Words: Disparities • Children’s Health • Public Health • State/Local Issues
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