Healthy Food Policy Project

Food is accessible when it is affordable and community members can readily grow or raise it, find it, obtain it, transport it, prepare it, and eat it. Access to fresh and nutritious food is shaped by the activities in a community’s food system and is influenced and sometimes constrained by laws and regulations. There are many legal and policy options available to communities seeking to make nutritious food easier to access and obtain. To help policymakers, community leaders, researchers, and others navigate them, the Healthy Food Policy Project includes resources and a policy database to highlight laws and regulations that address access to nutritious food.