Sentences with phrase «increasing food access»

«It's the absolute best way to make breakfast accessible to students,» she says, and increasing food access is crucial when 1 in 3 children in Central Texas experiences food insecurity.

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To increase knowledge and understanding of the benefits of buying fresh, local, farm products and increase knowledge of sustainable local agriculture and access to nutritious food.

PGS and CSA are similar in their overall objectives of improving livelihoods of organic producers and increased access to safe and nutritious food for consumers.

Wholesome Wave is a nonprofit organization with a mission to increase access to (and affordability of) fresh, locally grown food through programs that work with neighborhood farmer's markets and encourage those in under - served communities to make healthier choices and buy local produce.

With access to quality and imported foods being two of the main drivers of online consumer demand, online retailers are eager to find new suppliers and increase their international product offerings.

For our next Who's Next class, we here at The Incline want to spotlight under - 40 pros working in kitchens, opening restaurants, increasing access to food, making food sustainability a priority, and pouring (and brewing and distilling and stirring) drinks.

Rising wealth, increasing choice and greater market access are driving demand for a more diverse range of foods and food service options that are tailored to individual preferences and lifestyles.

Dr Karen Brooks stated that access to food is more important than volume globally, which was really interesting for me to hear as my studies have always focused on increasing volume of food produced.

Among the benefits of school salad bars reported by school food service directors were increased student access to fresh fruits and vegetables and increased student participation in the school lunch program.

«To maintain current employment opportunities and drive future growth in the U.S. food, beverage, and consumer products manufacturing industry, GMA urges the Trump Administration to consider the following priority objectives for modernizing NAFTA: maintain comprehensive, tariff - free trade in food, beverage, and consumer products and remove any tariff barriers, quotas, and / or other limitations to market access for goods traded among NAFTA countries; update rules that increase the competitiveness of U.S. companies; and concretely align regulations among the United States, Canada, and Mexico in order to decrease costs associated with unnecessary regulatory differences.

Unfortunately, this increased access to information only serves to stress out many parents - to - be, who find only an abundance of bizarre, overpriced «super foods» and supplements touted as being the key to delivering a baby who is healthy, beautiful, and brilliant.

There's an increasing propensity for people over there to access quality food, and protein is important,» Mr Pratt said at the opening of a new $ 50 million Visy recycling facility in Smithfield, west of Sydney on Friday.

Dubbed «Let's Move,» the campaign's four pillars call for more nutrition information, increased physical activity, easier access to healthy foods and personal responsibility.

Her goal is to increase economic opportunities for growers and businesses, and to increase access to local, nutritious foods.

These farmers could therefore access up to a third more food — equivalent to about 360 kilograms of grain per farming household — without increasing their production, potentially halving the duration of future «hungry seasons».

Platforms are an integral part of any food and beverage processing facility — providing access to equipment, safety egresses, employee walkways, and increasing manufacturing space.

During her three years at DCCK, she managed a program to increase access at corner stores in food deserts throughout DC, created and implemented an 8 - week long nutrition education lesson to at risk adults during their culinary job training program and assisted in using donated food to provide menus and food for nearly 5000 homeless adults daily.

Several studies have found that decreased access to competitive foods leads to increased participation in the National School Lunch Program and subsequent increases in federal reimbursements and overall revenue.

The website, which can be accessed here, has been increasing in content and continues to be a useful and inspirational resource for schools looking to improve their school food culture.

The non-profit, founded by Whole Foods Market, is working to help kids learn to love fresh, nutritious foods, and increase access to and consumption of these foods in schools.

By engaging partners across the state, we are removing barriers to nutrition programs, increasing outreach, and expanding access to affordable and healthy food — all steps that will get us closer to our mutual goal of ending hunger.

If adopted, the bill would streamline and increase access for children to healthy food during the school day and mandate national nutrition standards for food served in schools.

HIV - positive mothers who breastfeed need access to sufficient food of adequate quality to meet these increased nutritional needs and to protect their stores.

As the Partners for Breakfast in the Classroom (PBIC) initiative enters its third round of funding, the founding partners — NEA HIN, the Food Research and Action Center (FRAC), School Nutrition Foundation (SNF), and the National Association of Elementary School Principals Foundation (NAESPF)-- are working to increase access to school breakfast for students around the country.

Thousands of deaths could be averted through a combined prevention and treatment strategy — interventions such as improved mother and child nutrition, optimal breastfeeding practices; Oral Rehydration Therapy [ORT]; new low - osmolarity formulations of ORS; incorporating rotavirus vaccines; zinc supplementation during diarrhoea episodes; immunizing all children against measles; appropriate drug therapy; increased access to safe clean water and sanitation facilities and improved personal and domestic hygiene, including keeping food and water clean and washing hands before touching food.

The bill will significantly increase access and remove barriers to child nutrition programs, improve the quality of the meals served and implement new school food safety guidelines.

From increasing the federal reimbursable rates to eliminating junk food marketing to children to supporting families» access to fresh, healthy food (to encourage youths» taste preferences), we need to be doing a lot more to ensure all kids are getting proper nutrition.

HUMAN Everywhere's mission is to leverage the power of social entrepreneurship to improve the nation's collective health by increasing access to nutrition education and healthful foods while advocating for public policy that contributes to these goals.

What does this partnership mean for HUMAN franchisees across the country: 1) Franchisees provide AACS students / future professionals with convenient access to nutrition education and healthful food and beverage options, including hot meals 2) Franchisees have increased access to high - traffic AACS schools in their area 3) Franchisees have increased visibility and impact in their local communities

Effective food policy actions are part of a comprehensive approach to improving nutrition environments, defined as those factors that influence food access.1 Improvements in the nutritional quality of all foods and beverages served and sold in schools have been recommended to protect the nutritional health of children, especially children who live in low - resource communities.2 As legislated by the US Congress, the 2010 Healthy Hunger - Free Kids Act (HHFKA) updated the meal patterns and nutrition standards for the National School Lunch Program and the School Breakfast Program to align with the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans.3 The revised standards, which took effect at the beginning of the 2012 - 2013 school year, increased the availability of whole grains, vegetables, and fruits and specified weekly requirements for beans / peas as well as dark green, red / orange, starchy, and other vegetables.

Among the benefits of school salad bars reported by school food service directors were increased student access to fresh fruits and vegetables and increased student participation in the school lunch program.

Schools wanting to increase meal take - up or improve their school food finances have been able to receive help and access a suite of targeted resources and support.

Increasing access to local foods in schools is the goal, and USDA is spending more than $ 5 million to achieve it.

The program has four main pillars: empower parents and caregivers, provide healthy food in schools, improve access to healthy and affordable food, and increase physical activity.

I look forward to continuing to work with the First Lady and Secretary Vilsack to combat our national childhood obesity epidemic and increase students access to the nutritional food they need to help them learn.»

Now that we are doing the roads in all those areas, there is more cocoa being evacuated to the ports, you can send fertilizer to the farmers so that you can increase their productivity, more food can come to the market, which means food can become cheaper, people now have access to clean drinking water, which means people will be prevented from having all these water - borne diseases for which they go to hospital and overburden our NHIS.

According to him, Indeed, within an ever increasing population and a drive to self - sufficiency in food production, the demand for water supply and sanitation service will continue to increase thereby requiring an innovative and holistic approach towards closing the access gaps.

Mr. Thompson said the City should focus on fighting obesity through other initiatives including improved health education, increasing access to healthy foods and improving recreation opportunities rather than by banning unhealthy options.

Come check out the local vendors and hear about One Region Forward's work to increase the sustainability of Buffalo Niagara, including the work of our Food Access and Justice Working Team.

Project Moving Forward with More than $ 1.3 Million from New York State, Designed to Increase Access to Healthy Food, Improve Nutrition in Buffalo Neighborhoods

Long Island has seen an increase in the number of what the federal government calls food deserts, areas where residents lack access to affordable healthy food.

«Gardens are a great way to be active and increase access to healthy foods.

Regional Investments to Move New York City Forward - Investments in New York City's outer boroughs - $ 50 million investment in the Montefiore Health System - Transform health and wellness in Brooklyn through measures such as affordable housing with «features such as exercise rooms, rooftop gardens, and health clinics,» the expansion of New York's Land Bank Program, and the establishment of «Brooklyn as a primary location for the FreshConnect Mobile Markets and FreshConnect Checks program expansion to increase access to healthy foods in the area.»

«Increasing access to fresh fruits and vegetables is essential to improving one's diet and nutritional status and stretching the family food dollar,» Bullwinkle said.

Hunger in New York is a long - term problem that can not be solved in a matter of weeks, so this Task Force is the right step towards developing lasting solutions to increase access to food for those in need and build healthier and more prosperous communities.

Her proposal was part of a package of bills discussed Wednesday aimed at increasing consumer access to food safety reports.

JAMESTOWN - A final presentation about increasing access to healthy and affordable food in Jamestown will be held at the Immanuel Lutheran Church, 556 E. Second St., in Jamestown today from 2 to 4 p.m..

We have school pantry initiatives we're starting and that would help increase access to food.»

Part One and part two (below) of the final presentation the «Invest in Fresh» project, an analysis into increasing access to healthy and affordable food in Jamestown.

The bill would help pay for buses to drive kids in rural areas to the summer meal programs, increase access to farm - to - table foods, and also lower the threshold for school districts to qualify for free summer meal programs.