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The Grocery Gap:
Who Has Access to Healthy Food and Why It Matters

The Food Trust and PolicyLink present The Grocery Gap, the most comprehensive review of studies of healthy food access and its impacts -- 132 studies conducted in the United States in the past 20 years.

 

Did you know...

  • Accessing healthy food is a challenge for many Americans—particularly those living in low-income neighborhoods, communities of color, and rural areas.
  • Better access to healthy food corresponds with healthier eating.
  • Access to healthy food is associated with lower risk for obesity and other diet-related chronic diseases.
  • New and improved healthy food retail in underserved communities creates jobs and helps to revitalize low-income neighborhoods.

Learn more: The Grocery Gap: Who Has Access to
Healthy Food and Why it Matters (PDF)

The Food Trust's research and evaluation efforts

Contact The Food Trust's Director of
Research and Evaluation Allison Karpyn