Supermarkets are natural and important settings for implementing environmental
interventions to improve healthy eating, and governmental policies could help improve the …

Abstract Objective To examine Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
recipients' use of the first online supermarket accepting Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) …

Initiatives to build supermarkets in low-income areas with relatively poor access to large
food retailers (“food deserts”) have been implemented at all levels of government, although …

Effective ways to promote healthful food intake in rural areas are understudied. The paper
evaluated whether a two-component, in-store intervention designed to encourage healthy …

Using 71 planned supermarket interventions in food deserts, this study assesses the
interplay between regional geography, management models, policy drivers, financing, and …

Research evaluating the impact of new food stores in “food deserts” have reported limited
impact on eating and health outcomes of residents who live nearby. Few studies have …

This dissertation highlights challenges to food and nutrition security, and the practices
households adopt to overcome these challenges. In the first essay, I use primary data to …

Abstract The American Planning Association reports that food systems planning has been a
field of growing interest among planners since 2004. Food systems planning encompasses …