Can CSA Cost-Offset Programs Improve Diet Quality for Limited Resource Families?
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Kolodinsky, Jane M.; Sitaker, Marilyn; Morgan, Emily H.; Connor, Leah M.; Hanson, Karla L.; Becot, Florence; Pitts, Stephanie B. Jilcott; Ammerman, Alice S.; Seguin, Rebecca A.
- Source
- Choices: The Magazine of Food, Farm & Resource Issues. 2017, Vol. 32 Issue 1, p1-10. 10p. 2 Maps.
- Subject
- *COMMUNITY-supported agriculture
*CHILDHOOD obesity
*POOR people
*FOOD research
- Language
- ISSN
- 0886-5558
The article focuses on the Community Supported Agriculture Cost-offset Intervention to Prevent Childhood Obesity and Strengthen Local Agricultural Economies project which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI) project. It involves community supported agriculture (CO-CSA) participation as a strategy for improving dietary quality among low-income families. It also draws on research related to obesity, fruit and vegetable consumption.