Food-Mapping for Empowerment, Access, and Sustainable Transformation
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2018-04
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Ohio State University. Office of Outreach and Engagement
Abstract
Learn about an innovatiive, diverse community-university research collaborative intent on understanding, mapping and transforming our local food systems. Food-mapping for Empowerment, Access, and Sustainable Transformation's (FEAST) approach is rooted in community-based participatory research (CBPR) practices, informed by The Kirwan Institute's Principles of Equitable and Inclusive Civic Engagement. It utilizes Art of Hosting practices to create radically hospitable engagement spaces where community members can share how they access healthy food in their neighborhood. Learn about FEAST's approach to transformative food systems change, as well as FEAST's vision, mission and research objectives. Also learn how to get involved in this trans-formational community-university collaborative and get tips on successful community-university partnerships.
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Food-mapping for Empowerment, Access, and Sustainable Transformation (FEAST) brings together two community-university research collaboratives to form a powerful team of food environment experts, service providers, activists, and policy makers intent on understanding, mapping, and transforming our local food systems. FEAST seeks to expand the work of the FIC Food Mapping Team (FMT) led by Michelle Kaiser to create a contiguous, online and interactive health and food environment mapping tool, creating and maintaining a dataset that currently does not exist for central Ohio. Additionally, FEAST seeks to better understand the intersection of identity and place by combining forces with the Food Opportunity Research Collaborative (FORC) and partnering with community members to implement a modified version of Healthy Eating and Active Living Mapping Attributes using Participatory Photographic Surveys (HEAL MAPPS). Traditional HEAL MAPPS is currently being circulated to all of Ohio's 88 counties through OSU Extension. FEAST firmly believes that a better understanding of the lived experience of food insecurity can lead to game-changing policy to address this issue which permeates our society. FEAST's approach is rooted in community-based participatory research (CBPR) practices, informed by The Kirwan Institute's Principles of Equitable and Inclusive Civic Engagement, and utilizes Art of Hosting practices to create radically hospitable engagement spaces where community members can share their experience accessing healthy food in their neighborhood. In this five-minute session, you will learn about FEAST's approach to transformative food systems change and gain familiarity with FEAST's vision, mission and research objectives. You will also learn how to get involved in this transformational community-university collaborative and receive tips on successful community-university partnerships.
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Glennon Sweeney, Senior Research Associate, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, sweeney.270@osu.edu (Corresponding Author).
AUTHOR AFFILIATION: Glennon Sweeney, Senior Research Associate, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, sweeney.270@osu.edu (Corresponding Author).
Keywords
community-based participatory research, food insecurity, FEAST, community-university partnership
Citation
Engaged Scholars, v. 6 (2018).