Resources

• Chen, Y., Marek, G. W., Marek, T. H., Porter, D. O., Brauer, D. K., & Srinivasan, R. (2021). Modeling climate change impacts on blue, green, and grey water footprints and crop yields in the Texas High Plains, USA. Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 310, 108649.

• Congressional Research Service. (2021, November 19). Racial Equity in U.S. Farming: Background in Brief.

• Congressional Research Service. (2013, May 29). The Pigford Cases: USDA Settlement of Discrimination Suits by Black Farmers.

• Crouch, M., Guerrero, B., Amosson, S., Marek, T., & Almas, L. (2020). Analyzing potential water conservation strategies in the Texas Panhandle. Irrigation Science, 38(5), 559-567.

• Daher, B., Lee, S.-H., Kaushik, V., Blake, J., Askariyeh, M. H., Shafiezadeh, H., Zamaripa, S., & Mohtar, R. H. (2019). Towards bridging the water gap in Texas: A water-energy-food nexus approach. Science of The Total Environment, 647, 449-463.

• Davis, J. N., Pérez, A., Asigbee, F. M. et al. (2021). School-based gardening, cooking and nutrition intervention increased vegetable intake but did not reduce BMI: Texas sprouts - a cluster randomized controlled trial. International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity, 18(18).

• de-Assis, M. P., Barcella, R. C., Padilha, J. C., Pohl, H. H., & Krug, S. B. F. (2021). Health problems in agricultural workers occupationally exposed to pesticides.Revista Brasileira de Medicina do Trabalho, 18(3), 352-363.

• Dvorak, B. D. & Ali, A. K. (2016). Urban Agriculture Case Studies in Central Texas: From the Ground to the Rooftop. InTech.

• Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). What Climate Change Means for Texas.

• FoodPrint. (2024, February 1). Black Land Loss in the United States.

• Gaffney, K. A. (2013). Reaching Austin’s Maximum Agricultural Production. Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin.

• Kulat, M. I., Mohtar, R. H., & Olivera, F. (2019). Holistic Water-Energy-Food Nexus for Guiding Water Resources Planning: Matagorda County, Texas Case. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 7.

• Niles, M. T., McCarthy, A. C., Malacarne, J., Bliss, S., Belarmino, E. H., Laurent, J., Merrill, S. C., Nowak, S. A., & Schattman, R. E. (2024). Home and wild food procurement were associated with improved food security during the COVID-19 pandemic in two rural US states. Scientific Reports, 14(2682).

• Ray, R. L., Fares, A., & Risch, E. (2018). Effects of drought on crop production and cropping areas in Texas. Agricultural & Environmental Letters, 3(1).

• Rosenberg, N. & Stucki, B. W. (2019, June 26). How USDA distorted data to conceal decades of discrimination against Black farmers. The Counter.

• Rosero, A., Granda, L., Berdugo-Cely, J. A., Šamajová, O., Šamaj, J., & Cerkal, R. (2020). A Dual Strategy of Breeding for Drought Tolerance and Introducing Drought-Tolerant, Underutilized Crops into Production Systems to Enhance Their Resilience to Water Deficiency. Plants (Basel), 9(10), 1263.

• Saeed, F., Chaudhry, U. K., Raza, A., Charagh, S., Bakhsh, A., Bohra, A., Ali, S., Chitikineni, A., Saeed, Y., Visser, R. G. F., Siddique, K. H. M., & Varshney, R. K. (2023). Developing future heat-resilient vegetable crops. Functional & Integrative Genomics, 23(1), 47.

• Simpson, April. (2023, October 10). Why is accurate data about Black farmers so hard to get? The Center for Public Integrity.

• St. Pierre, C., Sokalsky, A., & Sacheck, J. M. (2024). Participant Perspectives on the Impact of a School-Based, Experiential Food Education Program Across Childhood, Adolescence, and Young Adulthood. Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, 56(1), 4-15.

• Sustainable Food Center, Foodshed Investors, &The Working Farms Fund. (2024, June). Land Access: Toward Preserving Land in Central Texas for Regenerative Farming.

• USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. 2022 State and County Profiles – Texas.

• USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. 2022 Census of Agriculture Ag Census Web Maps.

• USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. (2024, June 28). 2022 Race, Ethnicity and Gender Profiles by County – Texas.

• USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service. Ag Census Highlights Publications.

• USDA Rural Business Cooperative Service. (2002). Black Farmers in America, 1865-2000: The Pursuit of Independent Farming and the Role of Cooperatives. RBS Research Report 194.

• Wozniacka, G. (2019, April 12). Is it a Farm if it Doesn’t Sell Food? Civil Eats.

• Wurbs, R. A. (2015). Sustainable Statewide Water Resources Management in Texas. Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management, 141(12), A4014002.

• National Center for Appropriate Technology. (2015). Feasibility Study for a Texas Organic Food Hub.

• Sustainable Food Center. (2019). Feasibility Study for a Central Texas Food Hub.

• Campbell, C. (2023). Values-based institutional food procurement programs: A narrative review. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD), 12(4), 123-133.

• City of Austin Office of Sustainability and the Austin Public Health Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Program at Austin Public Health. (2018). Food Access in Austin: Food Environment Analysis. For more on the analysis that inspired this storymap, see Baltimore City’s Food Environment: 2018 Report.

• Lee, K., & Capps Jr., O. (2023). Habitual behavior of household food expenditure by store type in the United States. PLoS ONE, 18(9).

• Linde, S., Walker, R., Campbell, J., & Egede, L. (2023). Historic Residential Redlining and Present-Day Social Determinants of Health, Home Evictions, and Food Insecurity within US Neighborhoods. Journal of General Internal Medicine, 38(15), 3321-3328.

• Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems and the Wallace Center at Winrock International. National Food Hub Surveys.

• Ranjit, N., Salvo, D., Nielsen, A., Akhavan, N., Diaz, M., Lemoine, P., Casnovsky, J., & van den Berg, A. (2021). A Multi-Pronged Evaluation of a Healthy Food Access Initiative in Central Texas: Study Design, Methods, and Baseline Findings of the FRESH-Austin Evaluation Study. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18(20), 10834.

• Shaker, Y., Grineski, S., Collins, T., & Flores, A. (2022). Redlining, racism and food access in US urban cores. Agriculture and Human Values, 1-12.

• TXP, Inc. (2013). The Economic Impact of Austin’s Food Sector.

• USDA Agricultural Marketing Service. (2019). National Farmers Market Managers Survey.

• USDA Economic Research Service. (2022). Growth in the number of U.S. farmers markets slows in recent years.

• USDA Economic Research Service. (2023, November 14). Retail Trends.

• Ver Ploeg, M., et al. (2009). Access to Affordable and Nutritious Food: Measuring and Understanding Food Deserts and Their Consequences. Report to Congress. “Chapter 6: The Economics of Supermarket and Grocery Store Location.” USDA Economic Research Service.

• Watkins, E. M. (2019). Consuming Community: An Ethnography of a Central Texas Community Supported Agriculture Program. A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Council of Texas State University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts with a Major in Sociology.

• Adan, R. A. H., van der Beek, E. M., Buitelaar, J. K., Cryan, J. F., Hebebrand, J., Higgs, S., Schellekens, H., & Dickson, S. L. (2019). Nutritional psychiatry: Towards improving mental health by what you eat. European Neuropsychopharmacology, 29(12), 1321-1332.

• Adjemian, M., Arita, S., Meyer, S., & Salin, D. (2023). Factors affecting recent food price inflation in the United States. Applied Economic Perspective and Policy, EarlyView.

• Berkowitz, S. A., Seligman, H. K., Meigs, J. B., & Basu, S. (2018). Food insecurity, healthcare utilization, and high cost: a longitudinal cohort study. The American Journal of Managed Care, 24(9), 399-404.

• Berkowitz, S.A., Basu, S., Gundersen, C., & Seligman, H. K. (2019). State-Level and County-Level Estimates of Health Care Costs Associated with Food Insecurity. Preventing Chronic Disease, 16:180549.

• Bruening, M., Dinour, L. M., & Chavez, J. B. R. (2017). Food insecurity and emotional health in the USA: a systematic narrative review of longitudinal research. Public Health Nutrition, 20(17), 3200-3208.

• Chang, Y., Chatterjee, S., & Kim, J. (2022). Do Households Use Food Budget Stretching to Alleviate Food Insecurity?Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 50(4), 288-300.

• Głąbska, D., Guzek, D., Groele, B., & Gutkowska, K. (2020). Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Mental Health in Adults: A Systematic Review. Nutrients, 12(1), 115.

• Haynes-Maslow, L., Jones, L., Morris, L., Anderson, A., & Hardison-Moody, A. (2020). Development and Evaluation of a Family-Based Cooking and Nutrition Education Program. The Journal of Extension, 58(3), Article 16.

• Hecht, E. M., Rabil, A., Martinez Steele, E., Abrams, G. A., Ware, D., Landy, D. C., & Hennekens, C. H. (2022). Cross-sectional examination of ultra-processed food consumption and adverse mental health symptoms. Public Health Nutrition, 25(11), 3225-3234.

• Herman, D. R., Westfall, M., Bashir, M., & Afulani, P. (2024). Food Insecurity and Mental Distress Among WIC-Eligible Women in the United States: A Cross-Sectional Study. Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 124(1), 65-79.

• Kris-Etherton, P. M., Petersen, K. S., Hibbeln, J. R., Hurley, D., Kolick, V., Peoples, S., Rodriguez, N., & Woodward-Lopez, G. (2021). Nutrition and behavioral health disorders: depression and anxiety. Nutrition Reviews, 79(3), 247-260.

• Leung, C. W., Epel, E. S., Willett, W. C., Rimm, E. B., & Laraia, B. A. (2015). Household Food Insecurity Is Positively Associated with Depression among Low-Income Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Participants and Income-Eligible Nonparticipants. The Journal of Nutrition, 145(3), 622-627.

• Leung, C., Odoms-Young, A., & Essel, K. (2024). Food Insecurity Is a Source of Toxic Stress. JAMA Pediatrics, 178(4).

• Nelson, C. C. (2022). Using a Social Determinants of Health Summary Measure to Predict General Health Status in the BRFSS. American Journal of Health Promotion, 36(2): 301-304.

• Pauley, Rachel. (2013). Impact of the Happy Kitchen/La Cocina Alegre™ cooking program on individuals from underserved communities in Austin. Texas Medical Center Dissertations (via ProQuest).

• Pybus, K., Peitzmeier, S., & Hansen, D. (2023). Ripple Effects of the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program: A Participatory Evaluation of a Nutrition Program. Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 55(7), 87.

• Rodríguez, J. E., & Campbell, K. M. (2017). Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Prevalence and Care of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes. Clinical Diabetes, 35(1): 66-70.

• Samudra, R., & Heboyan, V. (2023). Examining the Connection Between Health Outcomes, State Political Ideology, and Food Access in the United States. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 29(6), E284-E292.

• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). (2015). Racial/Ethnic Differences in Mental Health Service Use among Adults.

• Tsui, J., Hirsch, J. A., Bayer, F. J., et al. (2020). Patterns in Geographic Access to Health Care Facilities Across Neighborhoods in the United States Based on Data from the National Establishment Time-Series Between 2000 and 2014. JAMA Network Open, 3(5).

• USDA Economic Research Service. (2024, February 7). FoodAPS National Household Food Acquisition and Purchase Survey.

• USDA Economic Research Service. (2024, February 7). Food Price Outlook.

• Xin, J., Zhao, L., Wu, T., Zhang, L., Li, Y., Xue, H., Xiao, Q., Wang, R., Xu, P., Visscher, T., Ma, X., & Jia, P. (2019). Association between access to convenience stores and childhood obesity: A systematic review. Obesity Reviews, 22(1).

In fall 2023, Central Texas Food Bank worked with University of Texas students in Nutrition 355 on a full literature review related to food waste. Read the literature review here.

• Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development. (2021). From Farm to Kitchen: The Environmental Impacts of U.S. Food Waste.

• Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Food Waste: The Big Picture.

• US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2023, April). 2019 Wasted Food Report: Estimates of generation and management of wasted food in the United States in 2019.

• Bevel, M., Tsai, M., Parham, A., Andrzejak, S., Jones, S., & Moore, J. (2023). Association of Food Deserts and Food Swamps with Obesity-Related Cancer Mortality in the US. JAMA Oncology, 9(7), 909-916.

• Carlson, S. & Llobrera, J. (2022, December 14). SNAP Is Linked With Improved Health Outcomes and Lower Health Care Costs. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

• Carlson, S. & Neuberger, Z. (2021, January 27). WIC Works: Addressing the Nutrition and Health Needs of Low-Income Families for More Than Four Decades. Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.

• City of Austin Office of Sustainability and the Austin Public Health Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Program at Austin Public Health. (2018). Food Access in Austin: Food Environment Analysis.

• Civil Eats Editors. (2019, June 4). After a Decade of Food Access Work, Are People Eating Any Healthier?Civil Eats.

• Cooksey-Stowers, K., Schwartz, M. B., & Brownell, K. D. (2017). Food Swamps Predict Obesity Rates Better Than Food Deserts in the United States. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health,14(11), 1366.

• Evans, A., Jennings, R., & Nikah, K. (2017). The SNAP Gap: Why Income-Eligible Individuals Are Not Enrolling in SNAP. University of Texas School of Public Health.

• Fair Food Network and SPUR. (2021). The Economic Contributions of Expanding Healthy Food Incentives.

• Feeding America. (2024, September). Elevating Voices: Insights Report.

• Nutrition Incentive Program Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information Center (NTAE). (2023). GusNIP NTAE Nutrition Incentive Economic Impact Calculator.

• Texas Research-to-Policy Collaboration Project. TX RPC Health Policy Resources. Michael & Susan Dell Center for Healthy Living at the UTHealth School of Public Health in Austin.

• USDA Economic Research Service. (2019). The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Economy: New Estimates of the SNAP Multiplier.

• USDA Food and Nutrition Service. (2025, February). Reaching Those in Need: Estimates of State SNAP Participation Rates in 2022.

• USDA Food and Nutrition Service. (2013, August). Nutrition Assistance Program Report: Measuring the Effect of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Participation on Food Security.

Austin/Travis County State of the Food System Report (2022)

In fall 2022, the City of Austin Office of Climate Action and Resilience (formerly the Office of Sustainability) released a new State of the Food System Report, which serves as a baseline assessment of the current Austin/Travis County food system. The report highlights trends, policies, key questions, and current gaps in the City of Austin's food system. Below are some of the report’s key findings:

• Only 0.06% of food consumed in Travis County is produced locally;

• 16.8 acres of farmland are lost daily in Travis County;

• The gap between food purchased and food produced in Central Texas is $2.3 billion;

• 84.4% of Travis County residents do not meet daily fruit and vegetable intake recommendations; and

• 1.24 million pounds of food are wasted daily in the Austin area alone.