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- Title
Pioneering Healthier Communities, West Michigan: a community response to the food environment.
- Authors
Cyzman D; Wierenga J; Sielawa J
- Abstract
In 2005, the Pioneering Healthier Communities initiative prompted the creation ofthe Activate West Michigan coalition. One of its earliest objectives was to increase fruit and vegetable consumption for people who lived in low-income, African American, and Latino communities in urban Grand Rapids. Because the existing food environment created barriers to this objective, the coalition created community and schoolyard gardens and farmers' markets. By 2008, the Activate West Michigan coalition had begun to improve the food environment by establishing nine community and school-yard gardens and five farmers' markets.
- Publication
Health Promotion Practice, 2009, Vol 10, Issue 2S, p146S
- ISSN
1524-8399
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/1524839908331269