SOCL 4252: Food in American History and Culture

This study from the Urban Institute provides a county-level map of food insecurity in the U.S. as well as strategies to tackle the problem.

Defines 'food deserts' and provides links to further research.

Provides The latest data on food insecurity in Massachusetts.

How the Black Panther Party and women's organizations fueled American food policy.

Information on federally-funded nutrition programs to benefit children and adults.

Assembles statistics on food environment indicators to stimulate research on the determinants of food choices and diet quality, and provides a spatial overview of a community's ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so.

Statistics, charts, and reports on food insecurity in the United States.

Examines the early history of the National School Lunch program and its European antecedents.

Information on the federal food assistance program.

The National School Lunch Program (NSLP) is the Nation’s second largest food and
nutrition assistance program.

This 2021 article looks at the notoriously bad food served in American prisons.

This organization uses statistical data to forecast environmental trends and capacities. It asserts that the world will run out of food in 27 years as population reaches 10 billion on an environmentally degraded planet.