Food Accessibility

Healthy food is easy to get
What is food accessibility?
Sources for healthy food are easy to get to at a manageable distance from home or work, using affordable and convenient personal or public transportation.

Goals

  • Stores selling healthy food are located near all communities
  • Cities and towns provide adequate, safe options to bike or walk to places where they can buy or grow healthy food
  • Communities offer widely available, and more affordable public, private, and non-profit transportation and delivery options to make it easier to get healthy food
The Minnesota Food Charter will ensure we have healthy, affordable and safe food, building a legacy of health for future generations.

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The Minnesota Food Charter Network is supported by the Center for Prevention at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture, the Minnesota Department of Health, University of Minnesota Extension, and the General Mills Foundation. This material was funded in part by USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program – SNAP – with funds received from and through the Minnesota Department of Human Services. USDA is an equal opportunity provider and employer. The Minnesota Food Charter Network is hosted by the University of Minnesota’s Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute.