Fair Food Network is founded on the belief that vibrant local food systems create health and
economic opportunity for all. A national nonprofit, we pioneer solutions that support farmers,
strengthen local economies, and increase access to healthy food—especially in our most
underseved communities. Fair Food Network’s Double Up Food Bucks program is a national
model for healthy food incentives. Active in 23 states and growing, it is helping low-income
families bring home more healthy food while supporting American farmers. To learn more,
visit fairfoodnetwork.org.
Wholesome Wave is a national nonprofit making fruits and vegetables affordable for the
people who need them most. When people can afford produce, they buy it. And when
the millions of Americans struggling with poverty eat more fruits and vegetables, we see
immediate improvements for families and farmers—and enormous long-term gains for public
health, local economies, and the environment. Wholesome Wave’s innovative initiatives reach
half a million under-served consumers, as well as thousands of farmers annually, in 49 states
and counting. To learn more, visit wholesomewave.org.
The Food Trust’s mission is to ensure that everyone has access to affordable, nutritious food
and information to make healthy decisions. Working with neighborhoods, schools, grocers,
farmers and policymakers, we’ve developed a comprehensive approach to improved food
access that combines nutrition education and greater availability of affordable, healthy food.
To learn more, visit thefoodtrust.org.
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Photos courtesy of Dave Tavani for The Food Trust; Fair Food Network; and Mpu Dinani/A-Game Photography. Special thanks to the
Ecology Center and Fitzgerald Canepa, LLC for their contributions to this piece. Copyright The Food Trust 2018
Suggested citation: “The Power of Produce: Healthy Food Incentives Empower Families, Support Farmers and Lift Up Communities,”
The Food Trust’s Center for Healthy Food Access, Fair Food Network & Wholesome Wave (2018), thefoodtrust.org/uploads/media_
items/the-power-of-produce.original.pdf
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American Journal of Preventive Medicine,
“Dissemination of Technology to Evaluate Healthy
Food Incentive Programs” sciencedirect.com/
science/article/pii/S0749379716303932
American Journal of Preventive Medicine,
“Increasing Use of a Healthy Food Incentive:
A Waiting Room Intervention Among Low-
Income Patients” sciencedirect.com/science/article/
pii/S0749379716305827
Fair Food Network, “Double Up Bucks:
A Five-Year Success Story” fairfoodnetwork.
org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/FFN_
DoubleUpFoodBucks_5YearReport.pdf
Kate Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald Canepa, LLC, “FINI
Grant Program: 2015 Results” fairfoodnetwork.org/
resources/fini-grant-program-2015-program-results
Farmers Market Coalition, “Farmers Markets
Stimulate Local Economies” farmersmarketcoalition.
org/education/stimulate-local-economies
Farmers Market Coalition, “Year One of the USDA
FINI Program” report farmersmarketcoalition.
org/resource/year-one-of-the-usda-fini-program-
incentivizing-the-purchase-of-fruits-and-vegetables-
among-snap-customers-at-the-farmers-market
Food Research & Action Center, FACTS: SNAP
Strengths frac.org/wp-content/uploads/frac-facts-
snap-strengths.pdf
Maine Policy Review, “Healthy Food
Access and Affordability: We Can Pay the
Farmer or We Can Pay the Hospital”
wholesomewave.org/sites/default/files/wp-content/
uploads/2014/07/maine_policy_review.pdf
Massachusetts Department of Health
and Human Services, “History of the Healthy
Incentives Pilot” mass.gov/eohhs/consumer/
basic-needs/food/snap/hip/history-of-the-healthy-
incentives-pilot.html
New York City, Farmers Market Guide
www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/health/health-topics/cdp-
farmersmarkets.page
New York City Health Department, Farmers
Market Programs report www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/
downloads/pdf/cdp/farmers-market-report-11.pdf
Preventing Chronic Disease, “Improving Fruit
and Vegetable Consumption Among Low-Income
Customers at Farmers Markets: Philly Food
Bucks, Philadelphia, PA 2011” dx.doi.org/10.5888/
pcd10.120356
Public Health Nutrition, “Factors Associated
With Continued Participation in a matched
Monetary Incentive Programme at Local
Farmers’ Markets in Low-income
Neighbourhoods in San Diego, California”
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28756784
USDA, Characteristics of Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Program Households: Fiscal Year 2015
Summary fns-prod.azureedge.net/sites/default/files/
ops/Characteristics2015-Summary.pdf
USDA, FINI Grant Program Guidelines
www.fns.usda.gov/snap/FINI-Grant-Program
USDA, “Food Assistance National Input-Output
Multiplier Model and Stimulus Effects of SNAP”
ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/44748/7996_
err103_1_.pdf?v=41056
USDA, Healthy Incentives Pilot backgrounder
www.fns.usda.gov/hip/healthy-incentives-pilot
USDA, SNAP Resources www.fns.usda.gov/pd/
supplemental-nutrition-assistance-program-snap
Washington State Department of Health, 2015–17
FINI Progress Report doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/
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Wholesome Wave and Project for Public Spaces,
“SNAP/EBT at Your Farmers Market: Seven
Steps to Success” s3.amazonaws.com/aws-website-
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Wholesome Wave, Shopping and Behavior Study
wholesomewave.org/sites/default/files/wp-content/
uploads/2014/10/Double-Value-Coupon-Program-
Diet-Shopping-Behavior-Study.pdf