Daily Access to Local Foods for School Meals: Key Drivers

Katherine Ralston, Elizabeth Beaulieu, Jeffrey Hyman, Matthew Benson and Michael Smith

No 256713, Economic Information Bulletin from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: Farm-to-school programs began in the 1990s and have been encouraged by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) through grant funding, technical assistance, and changes to school meal procurement regulations. In 2012, USDA’s Farm to School Program was formally established to improve access to local foods in eligible schools. Today, more than 4 in 10 school districts report serving local foods or implementing other farm-to-school activities. To examine progress toward USDA’s goal of daily availability of locally produced foods for all students and to identify potential targets for technical assistance, this report uses data from the 2013 Farm to School Census to measure the prevalence of school districts that serve local food daily and the characteristics of those districts.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Food Security and Poverty; Marketing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 36
Date: 2017-03-23
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.256713

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