Challenges and opportunities to increasing fruit and vegetable distribution through the US charitable feeding network: increasing food systems recovery of edible fresh produce to build healthy food access

This qualitative study describes opportunities and challenges to produce recovery identified by food banking executive leadership across the US (n = 33). Identified challenges included regional variation in fresh produce availability, long transportation times, and lack of refrigerated storage. Oppo...

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Published inJournal of hunger & environmental nutrition Vol. 14; no. 5; pp. 593 - 612
Main Authors Wetherill, Marianna S., White, Kayla Castleberry, Rivera, Christine, Seligman, Hilary K.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Taylor & Francis 03.09.2019
Subjects
food assistance
food bank
food industry
food loss
food pantry
food recovery
food shrink
Food supply
food waste
fruit
vegetable
food bank
food loss
food recovery
fruit
food industry
food shrink
food pantry
food assistance
vegetable
Food supply
food waste
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Summary:This qualitative study describes opportunities and challenges to produce recovery identified by food banking executive leadership across the US (n = 33). Identified challenges included regional variation in fresh produce availability, long transportation times, and lack of refrigerated storage. Opportunities included high client demand for fresh produce, internal benchmarks for fresh produce distribution, and organizational partnerships to create regional sourcing and distribution efficiencies. This research indicates the need for cross-sector collaboration and planning efforts across the agricultural, health, and charitable feeding sectors in order to best recover and redistribute fresh produce.
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Hilary K. Seligman, MD, MAS, is Associate Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco and UCSF’s Center for Vulnerable Populations. She also serves as Senior Medical Advisor at Feeding America.
HK Seligman conceived the design for the FRESH-Foods study, obtained funding, developed the content for Figure 1, Table 1, and 2, and contributed to the introduction, methods, and discussion sections of this paper.
Marianna S. Wetherill, PhD, MPH, RDN-AP/LD, is the George Kaiser Family Foundation Chair in Population Healthcare and Assistant Professor of Health Promotion Sciences at the University of Oklahoma College of Public Health and Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the OU-TU School of Community Medicine.
Kayla Castleberry White, MPH, served as the Research Coordinator for the Food banking Research to Enhance the Spread of Healthy Foods study.
C Rivera contributed to the development of the codebook used for the qualitative analysis and contributed to the introduction, methods, and discussion sections.
Christine Rivera, RD, is the Community Health and Nutrition Manager for Network Engagement at Feeding America.
KC White conducted the primary literature review, assisted with qualitative analysis, compiled Table 3, and assisted with selection of illustrative quotes.
Author Contributions
MS Wetherill developed the research aims addressed in the paper, led the qualitative methods and analysis, drafted the organizational structure of the results, and synthesized the final manuscript.
ISSN:1932-0248
1932-0256
DOI:10.1080/19320248.2018.1484315