Food Next Door: From Food Literacy to Citizenship on a College Campus.

ABSTRACT: Industrial agriculture and food corporations have produced an abundance of food that is highly processed, nutritionally poor, and environmentally burdensome. As part of a healthy campus initiative, generated to address these and other food production and consumption dilemmas, a student-run "local and sustainable" food establishment called Food Next Door (FND) was created. This intrinsic case study evaluated food literacy in health science students, faculty, and staff first as a pilot to build the case for FND and further explicated customers', volunteers', and leads' experiences with FND, identifying potential pathways from food literacy to citizenship. Ten returning customers, eight recurring nutrition student volunteers, and three graduate student leads participated in interviews that we

SUBMITTER: Meyer N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7827084 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature