APATT_CommunityActionGuide

Take Your Place Community Action Guide
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Food Insecurity in the United States
Organizations
Food Policy Action www.foodpolicyaction.org
The Food Trust www.thefoodtrust.org
New York City Coalition Against Hunger www.nyccah.org
PolicyLink, The Food Trust, and The Reinvestment Fund’s Healthy Food Access Portal
www.healthyfoodaccess.org
Suggested Reading
Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class and Sustainability by Alison Hope Alkon and Julian Agyeman.
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.)
Food Insecurity and Risk of Obesity among Children and Families: Is There a Relationship?
by Nicole Larson and Mary Story. (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2010.) http://www.rwjf.org/
content/dam/farm/reports/reports/2010/rwjf58903
Hunger: Food Insecurity in America by Michael Wilson. (New York: Rosen Publishing Group, 2010.)
Recipe for America: Why Our Food System Is Broken and What We Can Do to Fix It by Jill Richardson.
(Brooklyn, NY: Ig Publishing, 2009.)
The Relationship Between Hunger, Poverty and Obesity
Organizations
Environmental Working Group www.ewg.org/goodfood
Healthy Eating Research www.healthyeatingresearch.org
Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities www.healthykidshealthycommunities.org
Suggested Reading
The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Wal-Mart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
by Tracie McMillan. (New York: Scribner, 2012.)
Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition by Marion Nestle. (Berkeley: University of
California Press, 2002.)
Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel. (Hoboken, NJ:
Melville House, 2008.)
Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice and the Limits of Capitalism by Julie Guthman. (Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2011.)
Why Calories Count: From Science to Politics by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim.(Berkeley:
University of California Press, 2012.)