About
The Rural Food Access work group (RFAWG) convenes researchers to share resources and conduct collaborative research addressing environmental, policy and economic issues related to rural food access.
Membership in the RFAWG is open to all NOPREN members and the WG facilitates monthly calls for all interested participants, plans, and conducts collaborative research projects and provides a forum for members to solicit expertise and involvement in their research projects.
Webinars
If you are interested in the recordings of any of these webinars, please email [email protected] to request it.
2025
The Rural Public Library Workforce as a Community Health Partner: Evidence from a National Survey (Lenstra)
Webinar Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2025
2024
Cooperative Purchasing in Grocery: A Strategy for Boosting Business Viability and Food Access in Rural Areas (Blair)
Webinar Date: Thursday, October 17, 2024
"Diapers or dinner? Food insecurity and unmet needs for diapers" (Belarmino)
Webinar Date: Thursday, May 16, 2024
Southern Indiana Farm to Health: Experiments in community-designed and -driven Food Is Medicine (Valliant)
Webinar Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Expert panel on recruiting research participants from rural communities (Seguin-Fowler & Holston)
Webinar Date: Thursday, March 21, 2024
Experiences of low-income dollar store shoppers and potential insights for rural communities (Reimold)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 18, 2024
2023
An introduction to the Farm Bill (Cates)
Webinar Date: Thursday, May 18, 2023
Application of agent-based modeling for research related to rural food access: a workshop (Calancie)
Webinar Date: Thursday, April 20, 2023
Using the Exploration, Preparation, Implementation, and Sustainment (EPIS) framework to advance the science and practice of healthy food retail (Houghtaling)
Webinar Date: Thursday, February 16, 2023
Adaptation of WISE for rural home visiting: an implementation science example (Swindle)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 19, 2023
2022
Updates from the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health: how does the national strategy relate to rural food access? (Bleich)
Webinar Date: Thursday, December 15, 2022
Can technology-based behavioral strategies be an avenue for lasting impact for rural communities? Findings from an online grocery shopping intervention (Gillespie)
Webinar Date: Thursday, October 20, 2022
Nutritional quality of menus provided through the Emergency Meals to You program (Harnack)
Webinar Date: Thursday, September 15, 2022
School meals and COVID-19 in rural communities (Soldavini & Baker)
Webinar Date: Thursday, May 19, 2022
Building partnerships with rural grocery store owners: a case study on improving the WIC shopping experience (La Lone)
Webinar Date: Thursday, March 17, 2022
Policy, Systems, and Environment (PSE) approaches to address food access in low-income, rural communities (Holston)
Webinar Date: Thursday, February 17, 2022
Household Structure and Risk of Food Insecurity: Implications for Children and Older Adults (Garner)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022
2021
Roundtable Discussion: Current Research, Methods, Collaboration
Webinar Date: Thursday, October 21, 2021
The Role of Libraries in Improving Rural Food Access and Food Security
Webinar Date: Thursday, September 16, 2021
Pass the Peas, Please! Impacting Preschoolers Preference & Consumption for Available Vegetables (Jocelyn Dixon)
Webinar Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Creciendo en Salud: Systems Change to Support Healthy Eating among Latino Youth and their Families in Benton County, Oregon (Patton-López)
Webinar Date: Thursday, April 15, 2021
Rural Food Access Student Spotlight Series
Webinar Date: Thursday, March 18, 2021
Chatham Food Hub: Creating Food Access and Economic Opportunity in a Pandemic (Wertman)
Webinar Date: Thursday, February 18, 2021
WIC Online Grocery Ordering: Opportunities and Potential Issues to Consider for Rural Communities (Anderson-Steeves)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 21, 2021
2020
Remote/Virtual/Hybrid Data Collection for Rural Communities and COVID-19 Times: Balancing Reality, Rigor, and Participant Perspectives (Seguin-Fowler)
Webinar Date: Thursday, December 17, 2020
Connecting Food, Farms and Nutrition: A text-message diabetes prevention program in rural North Carolina (Hege)
Webinar Date: Thursday, August 20, 2020
Health Care-Directed Screening Initiatives and Interventions for Persons with Food Insecurity (Bailey-Davis)
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 16, 2020
2019
The Borrowing Kitchen: Enhancing Food Pantry Nutrition (Anderson)
Webinar Date: Thursday, December 19, 2019
Community-Wide Efforts to Reduce Obesity (Gustafson)
Webinar Date: Thursday, November 21, 2019
2018
Social Entrepreneurship as an Approach to Healthy Food Access and Economic Opportunity (Ammerman)
Webinar Date: Thursday, October 18, 2018
Best practices and innovative solutions to overcome barriers to delivering policy, systems, and environmental change in rural communities (Maslow, Jilcott-Pitts)
Webinar Date: Tuesday, August 14, 2018
USDA Food and Nutrition Service Updates
Webinar Date: Thursday, March 22, 2018
The Costco Effect? Exploring Outshopping Behaviour in Rural Retail Food Environments
Webinar Date: Thursday, January 18, 2018
2017
Discussion on 2016-17 Research Study Overviews and new 2017-18 Research Projects
Webinar Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017
Discussion on USDA Secretary New Rule, Study Updates, Potential New Projects, and Speaker Ideas
Webinar Date: Thursday, May 25, 2017
Small Stores in Rural Maryland: Store Owner Perspectives on Business Operations and Healthy Foods (Shapiro)
Webinar Date: Thursday, February 23, 2017
