A Food Retailer’s Guide to Getting Started with Offering Local Food
March 3, 2021 - Lindsey Scalera and Andrea Weiss
This paper is an introductory guide for food retailers who want to begin offering local foods to their customers.
Readers are coached through considering their strengths, challenges, allies, and opportunities, as well as what goals can help them measure and communicate their successes.
About The Nutrition Incentive Hub
The Nutrition Incentive Program Training, Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Information (NTAE) Center is led by the Gretchen Swanson Center for Nutrition. In partnership with Fair Food Network, they created the Nutrition Incentive Hub, a coalition of partners to support this work, including the National Grocers Association Foundation, Farmers Market Coalition, Michigan Farmers Market Association, Ecology Center, Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis, Colorado School of Public Health, Ingredients Consulting, University of California San Francisco, and University of Michigan, among others. These partners are practitioners, retail experts, researchers, and evaluators from across the country bringing decades of experience and leadership in technical assistance, training, reporting, and evaluation. The Nutrition Incentive Hub is dedicated to building a community of practice to maximize program impact and ensure that all Americans have access to the healthy foods they need.
Suggested Citation
Scalera, L.J. & Weiss, A.S. (2021, March). A food retailer’s guide to getting started with offering local food. GusNIP NTAE Center, Nutrition Incentive Hub. https://www.nutritionincentivehub.org
This work is supported by Gus Schumacher Nutrition Incentive Program grant no. 2019-70030-30415/project accession no. 1020863 from the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture.