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Low-income adults’ perceptions of farmers’ markets and community-supported agriculture programmes

Content Provider	Scilit
Author	Cotter, Elizabeth W. Teixeira, Carla Bontrager, Annessa Horton, Kasharena Soriano, Deyanira
Copyright Year	2017
Description	Objective: To better understand low-income adults’ attitudes towards participating in farmers’ markets, community-supported agriculture (CSA) and nutrition education programming.Design: Focus groups were held with a diverse sample of adults. Interviews were transcribed verbatim and analysed using thematic analysis.Setting: Three affordable housing communities in Washington, DC, USA.Subjects: Participants included twenty-eight residents of the three affordable housing communities.Results: Four major themes emerged across groups, along with several sub-themes within each theme. These included: (i) perceptions of farmers’ markets (benefits, barriers, current participation and knowledge); (ii) perceptions of CSA (benefits, barriers and questions/concerns); (iii) need/interest in additional programming (nutrition education, non-nutrition education, qualities of programming and perceived barriers); and (iv) current health knowledge and behaviours (dietary behaviours, health recommendations and health concerns).Conclusion: Adults living in urban, affordable housing communities desire access to healthy foods, but are limited by cost. Programmes could have a higher likelihood of success if they accept benefits like SNAP (the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), are heavily marketed and incorporate culturally relevant nutrition education components.
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Ending Page	1460
Page Count	9
Starting Page	1452
ISSN	13689800
e-ISSN	14752727
DOI	10.1017/s1368980017000088
Journal	Public Health Nutrition
Issue Number	8
Volume Number	20
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Publisher Date	2017-02-16
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Public Health Nutrition Nutrition and Dietetics Qualitative Research Food Access income Population
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nutrition and Dietetics Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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