Measuring Effects of Mobile Markets on Healthy Food Choices

Lydia Zepeda and Anna Reznickova

No 356666, Analysis from United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Transportation and Marketing Program

Abstract: Excerpts from the Executive Summary: About 40 mobile markets have sprung up around the US in the past few years as a strategy to provide healthy food choices to communities identified as food deserts – communities with a low food access. These communities are mostly poor, often minority and frequently have high levels of nutrition related illnesses, such as obesity, heart disease, and type II diabetes. Mobile markets in the form of buses, trucks, or semi-trailers outfitted with refrigeration, cash registers, credit and electronic transfers retailing equipment are a lower cost alternative to establishing brick-and-mortar stores to provide healthy food access to multiple locations. The goal of this cooperative agreement with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) was to investigate whether mobile food markets may be effective in facilitating healthy food choices to their communities. The objectives of the research were to: (1) understand who does and who does not use mobile markets and why, and (2) investigate whether mobile produce markets have the potential to alter attitudes and food choices, and if so, how.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Consumer/Household Economics; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy; Institutional and Behavioral Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27
Date: 2013-11
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.356666

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