Reports
2022-2023
Identifying Successful Behaviors and Strategies for Nutrition Security
Food insecurity impacts health through a variety of mechanisms, including hunger, nutrition, chronic stress, and behaviors such as directing limited resources to some needs rather than others. Sustainable Food Center applied the positive deviance approach to community-based research—which centers the voices, experiences, and inherent knowledge of community members—within the communities we serve to identify successful behaviors and strategies for nutrition security.
2021-2022
Impact Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2021 - June 30, 2022
TEXAS BUYER SURVEY PILOT: Final Report
Sustainable Food Center developed and administered a pilot survey of Texas buyers to help build a greater understanding of the drivers and barriers to procuring local food for a variety of buyer types.
Statewide Discussions Around SNAP & Double Up Food Bucks: Focus Groups and Regional Convenings
2020-2021
Impact Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
County Extension in Texas: An Analysis of Operations and Recommendations for Influencing Outcomes
Between November 2020 and January 2021, the Sustainable Food Center (SFC), in collaboration with the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service, conducted a series of interviews with agriculture extension agents from around the country. The goals of the project were: to better understand how extension operates; assess how they determine county-level focus areas; and to enumerate ways that the Travis County Agricultural Extension Office can commit more attention and resources to food gardening education, food access, and regenerative agriculture.
2019-2020
Annual Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2019 - June 30, 2020
Neighborhood Pop-up Grocery Project Final Report
COVID-19 had a devastating impact across multiple social and economic sectors in the Austin community, including food access for families and the local food supply chain for local farms and restaurants. Sustainable Food Center, in partnership with Foodshed Investors and the City of Austin, responded to the resulting food crisis with a grocery pilot project by providing local food to neighborhoods in need, while boosting the local economy through restaurants serving as additional food access outlets. Read our report to learn more about the project operations and impact.
2018-2019
Annual Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2019.
Feasiblity Study for a Central Texas Food Hub
This study addresses the need for a central aggregation and distribution hub for local Central Texas producers seeking access to new or expanded market opportunities in the Austin metro area. The final report analyzed the local supply, demand, and existing assets – with robust producer and consumer input – in order to inform the feasibility of a sustainable business model.
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2017-2018
Annual Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2017 - June 30, 2018.
2016-2017
Annual Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2016 - June 30, 2017.
2015 - 2016
Annual Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2015 - June 30, 2016.
2014-2015
Annual Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015.
Increasing access to healthful foods: a qualitative study with residents of low-income communities
The purpose of this study was to gather low-income community members’ opinions about their food purchasing choices and their perceptions of the most effective ways to increase access to healthful foods in their communities.
Published in International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity.
2013 - 2014
Annual Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014.
2012 - 2013
Annual Report
Fiscal Year July 1, 2012 - June 30, 2013.
Increasing Access to Locally Produced Food
- Best Practices in Farmers' Market Incentive Programs & Recommendations for Local Implementation.
- Published by the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs.
Introduction of farm stands in low-income communities increases fruit and vegetable among community residents
- Ronda Rutledge and Andrew Smiley are contributing authors.
- Published September 2012, in Health & Place, an international journal.
2011 - 2012
Annual Report
Fiscal year July 1, 2011 - June 30, 2012.
Exposure to Multiple Components of a Garden-Based Intervention for Middle School Students Increases Fruit and Vegetable Consumption
- Ronda Rutledge and Andrew Smiley are contributing authors.
- Published January 2012 in Health Promotion Practice.
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Sustainable Food Policy Board Annual Report
For Austin/Travis County
Central Texas Food Shed Assessment
- By Karen Banks for SFC, released October 2011
- English & Spanish
2010 - 2011
Annual Report
Fiscal year July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011.
2009 - 2010
Annual Report
Fiscal year July 1, 2009 - June 30, 2010.
2008 - 2009
Annual Report
Fiscal year July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009.
Access Denied
An Analysis of Problems Facing East Austin Residents in Their Attempts To Obtain Affordable, Nutritious Food.