.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), to examine three areas of school food environments: policies and practices, availability of … schools in 38 states. Researchers found that the overall food environment becomes significantly less healthy as students … schools and 92 percent of middle schools sold food and beverages a la carte, and nearly 80 percent of these secondary schools …

examines the contribution of school meals to the food and nutrient intake of children in food-secure, marginally secure, and … food-insecure households. The study finds that children from food-insecure and marginally secure households receive a … larger proportion of their food and nutrient intakes at school than do children from highly secure households. …

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) provides food assistance to more than 47 million low …-income Americans every month. It aims to reduce hunger by facilitating beneficiaries’ access to enough food for a healthy, active … lifestyle, otherwise known as "food security." Our study conducted for the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of …

Available from the Food and Nutrition Service at (703) 305-2134. …

Summarizes recent work in the food security area and methods used to measure food security; also describes analytic and … empirical issues related to analyzing food security data. …