Healthy Food Resources

Non-Profit and Policy Groups

• Day-to-day steps, Los Angeles Food Policy Council
• PolicyLink
• The Food Trust
• Community Health Councils
• Food Deserts, Food Empowerment Project
• Hunger Action Los Angeles

Government Data Links

• Food Access Research Atlas, USDA
• DataLA: Information, Insights, and Analysis from the City of Angels
• City Government, City of Los Angeles
• Department of Public Health, Los Angeles County

Education

• UCLA Center for Health Policy Research

Other Useful Links

• Finding Nutrition in the Food Deserts of California (Pacific Standard)
• America’s Food Deserts Need Community Solutions, Not Big Box Stores (Civil Eats)
• Food Deserts, Societal Impacts, and Potential Solutions (PDF)
• The Grocery Gap, Who Has Access to Health Food and Why It Matters (PolicyLink)
• Studies Question the Pairing of Food Deserts and Obesity (The New York Times)