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Fresh from the
Field is a weekly album showcasing transformative impacts made by
partners supported by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture.
Editor: Falita Liles
May 10, 2018
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Success Stories
 Benefits of Green Spaces in Rural and Urban America
NIFA-funded scientists collaborating with the USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and USDA’s Forest Service, have used surveys,
interviews, and focus groups to assess the benefits of parks and recreation.
This research is providing the evidence and awareness needed for communities to
provide more green spaces, for more doctors to include outdoor recreation in
prescriptions, for policymakers to require outdoor recreation at school, and
for land managers to plan for outdoor recreation.
As researchers identify
motivations for and barriers to using outdoor spaces, professionals will be
able to design more attractive and accessible parks and recreation options. The
resulting health benefits of more participation in outdoor recreation could
help reduce healthcare costs across the nation.
NIFA supports this project through the Multistate Research Fund.
View the infographic for more stories. Photo courtesy of Getty Images.
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 Grandparents in Rural Florida
The University of Florida's Expanded Food Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP), through Escambia County has partnered with the
Council on Aging in their area.They are working with a subgroup called
“Grandparents Raising Grandchildren." This group consists of grandparents who are raising their grandchildren
and have obtained temporary custody or have adopted them because the
grandchildren’s biological parents are either incarcerated or deceased due to criminal activity and/or drug and alcohol addiction.
The opioid epidemic is affecting many families
and EFNEP helps by supplying the grandparents with education and tools that equip them in their endeavor to
raise healthy and happy children.
Each participant is given a challenge to purchase a healthy item from
each of the five food groups with the $10 that is provided for
them.
Please contact Wendy R. Meredith, Nutrition Educator, at UF/IFAS for additional information.
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