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Healthy People 2010: Objective 19-18: Nutrition and Overweight - Food Security
DHHS. NHLBI. Obesity Education Initiative. DHHS. National Institutes of Health; DHHS. Food and Drug Administration.

Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
USDA. Economic Research Service.
Provides a toolkit of standardized measurement tools for assessing various aspects of community food security. (2002)

Feeding America's Families - A Toolkit for Elected Representatives and Community Organizers (PDF|1.6 MB)
Annie E. Casey Foundation.
Toolkit includes resources for elected officials, from outreach ideas to a sample op-ed to press releases. For anti-hunger groups, there is advice on how to plan a press conference when an elected official visits a food stamp outreach site, as well as sample media advisories and invitations. Also includes background information about food stamp programs in each state and district.

Household Food Insecurity Access Scale Initiatives Results
Food and Technical Assistance (FANTA).
May 2006 supplement of the Journal of Nutrition that reports the most recent advances in food insecurity measurement.

FRAC News Digest
Food Research and Action Center.
Free weekly e-mail newsletter highlights what's new on hunger, nutrition and poverty issues at FRAC, at the US Department of Agriculture, around the network of national, state and local anti-poverty and anti-hunger organizations, and in the media.

Safe Food for the Hungry
Purdue University. Cooperative Extension Service. Department of Foods and Nutrition.
Program that promotes food security and food safety through teleconferences, print and web materials.

New Approaches for Measuring Household Food Insecurity and Poverty: the Household Food Insecurity Access Scale
Food and Nutrition Technical Assistance Project (FANTA).
A Household Food Insecurity Access Scale measure and guide, with a standardized questionnaire and data collection and analysis instructions. Can be used to assess the prevalence of household food insecurity and to detect changes in the food insecurity situation of a population over time.

Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger
Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations.
Global education initiative for schools and youth groups designed to enable and encourage teachers, students and young people to become actively involved in helping create a world free from hunger and malnutrition.

Eat Well for Less
Oregon State University Extension Service.
Provides web-based learning modules on planning quick and easy, healthful, low-cost meals and making food dollars last through the month.

Last Modified: Nov 12, 2008

US Nutrition Assistance Programs

Hunger and Food Security

			Government Hunger Relief Organizations and Resources
			Non-Government, Non-Profit Organizations
			Children and Hunger
			Report and Studies
			Databases
			Grant Information

Community Food Systems

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