Community Organizing Better Health: APM's Food Buying Club Model for Economic Development
Abstract
Food insecurity is the inability to afford enough food to maintain a healthy and fulfilling life. Since the 1960s, the U.S. has seen food insecurity increase drastically from one in 20 Americans to now one in seven. In Philadelphia, the situation is worse where one in four experiences food insecurity. In an effort to help move the needle forward, Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha’s (APM) Food Buying Club (FBC) devised a viable system to deliver quality fresh produce to residents while addressing the driving factors of household economics and neighborhood environment. The FBC model addresses food access as both a condition of societal determinants of health and a distribution management problem.
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