Food Security Summit: Barriers to Food Access in Middle Tennessee

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Title:	Food Security Summit: Barriers to Food Access in Middle Tennessee
Author:	Freedman, Darcy Wilson, Flora Godwin, Sandria
Description:	Includes descriptive metadata provided by producer in MP3 file: "Politics, Economics and Social Issues - Podcasts - Food Security Summit: Barriers to Food Access in Middle Tennessee." Darcy Freedman, Vanderbilt University Program in Community Research and Action, Sandria Godwin, Professor, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences and Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Research, Tennessee State University, and Flora Wilson, Organized Neighbors of Edgehill, discuss food insecurity on a national and local level. Availability and affordability of fresh produce are problems in poor neighborhoods. One in eight infants live in food insecure families. The Veggie Project, sponsored by Vanderbilt University, launched farmers' markets at Boys and Girls Clubs in Nashville where tobacco and cigarettes were more readily available than good quality produce.
Subject:	Food Security Summit Food Security Partners of Middle Tennessee Veggie Project
LCSH Subject:	Local foods -- Tennessee, Middle Farmers' markets -- Tennessee, Middle
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/1803/1724
Date:	2008-05-16