Download Mapping the World of Nutrition
Developed by Emerson Hunger Fellow Megan Lent, “Mapping the World of Nutrition” is a new ANSA project that outlines all the major sources of federal funding for nutrition programs, and the Congressional committees and federal agencies charged with their authority and oversight. It identifies the national, state and local stakeholders for each funding stream and, ultimately, identifies those individuals who receive services and benefits.
At the heart of this project is an understanding that the separate silos of AIDS nutrition, senior nutrition, child nutrition, food banks, anti-hunger initiatives, nutrition research and education, etc. actually overlap, and that each occupies an essential place in a continuum of nutrition care for vulnerable people everywhere.
We may operate within and be funded through separate silos, but there are social issues of epidemic proportions related to, and positively impacted by, nutrition. Diabetes, obesity, HIV/AIDS, a burgeoning elder population, sky-rocketing healthcare costs and increasing poverty can best be addressed when we operate outside of our designated silos and collaborate with each other.
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