IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/plo/pone00/0294473.html

Availability and price of fruits and vegetables in the surroundings of food and nutrition public establishments

Author

Listed:
  • Gabriela Gomes de Paiva
  • Rafael Moreira Claro
  • Bruna Vieira de Lima Costa

Abstract

Background: Inequalities of access to healthy food reinforce the need to strengthen public policies on Food and Nutritional Security. In this context, Food and Nutrition Public Establishments, which are public spaces for distribution and commercialization of healthy foods, stand out. However, in middle-income countries there is little monitoring of the impacts of public policies on food environments, which are fundamental for strengthening these actions. Thus, the purpose of the study was to evaluate the availability and price of fruits and vegetables in areas with and without Food and Nutrition Public Establishments. Methodology: A cross-sectional study carried out in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Audits were conducted in the retail food environment of a representative sample of Food and Nutrition Public Establishments (n = 10) and corresponding census sectors, without Food and Nutrition Public Establishments (n = 10). Information was collected on the availability and price of the most consumed fruits and vegetables in Belo Horizonte. The food retailers were grouped into fresh food retailers and mixed food retailers. The Chi-Square test was used to compare the availability of fruits and vegetables between areas. The Mann Whitney test was used to compare the prices of fruit and vegetables and the price differences between fresh food retailers and mixed food retailers between areas. Results: 148 food retailers were audited, including 17 Food and Nutrition Public Establishments. In fresh food retailers, the availability of vegetables was higher in areas with Food and Nutrition Public Establishments (p = 0.024). In mixed food retailers there was low availability of fruit and vegetables in both areas (34.0% vs. 26.2%; p>0.05). The price difference between fresh food retailers and mixed food retailers differed significantly between areas (p

Suggested Citation

  • Gabriela Gomes de Paiva & Rafael Moreira Claro & Bruna Vieira de Lima Costa, 2023. "Availability and price of fruits and vegetables in the surroundings of food and nutrition public establishments," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 18(11), pages 1-13, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0294473
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0294473
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294473
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0294473&type=printable
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1371/journal.pone.0294473?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Bekkers, Eddy & Brockmeier, Martina & Francois, Joseph & Yang, Fan, 2017. "Local Food Prices and International Price Transmission," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 96(C), pages 216-230.
    2. Milena Klimek & Jim Bingen & Bernhard Freyer, 2018. "Metropolitan farmers markets in Minneapolis and Vienna: a values-based comparison," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 35(1), pages 83-97, March.
    3. Current, John & Min, Hokey & Schilling, David, 1990. "Multiobjective analysis of facility location decisions," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 49(3), pages 295-307, December.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Pérez-Mesa, Juan Carlos & Galdeano-Gómez, Emilio & Salinas Andújar, Jose A., 2012. "Logistics network and externalities for short sea transport: An analysis of horticultural exports from southeast Spain," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 24(C), pages 188-198.
    2. Melachrinoudis, Emanuel & Min, Hokey, 2000. "The dynamic relocation and phase-out of a hybrid, two-echelon plant/warehousing facility: A multiple objective approach," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 123(1), pages 1-15, May.
    3. Stéphane Blancard & Maximin Bonnet & Jean-François Hoarau, 2020. "The specific role of agriculture for economic vulnerability of small island spaces," Working Papers hal-02441237, HAL.
    4. Harris, Irina & Naim, Mohamed & Palmer, Andrew & Potter, Andrew & Mumford, Christine, 2011. "Assessing the impact of cost optimization based on infrastructure modelling on CO2 emissions," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 131(1), pages 313-321, May.
    5. Olivares-Benitez, Elias & Ríos-Mercado, Roger Z. & González-Velarde, José Luis, 2013. "A metaheuristic algorithm to solve the selection of transportation channels in supply chain design," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(1), pages 161-172.
    6. Shaobin Zhang & Baofeng Shi, 2024. "The Asymmetric Tail Risk Spillover from the International Soybean Market to China’s Soybean Industry Chain," Agriculture, MDPI, vol. 14(7), pages 1-16, July.
    7. Zuo-Jun Max Shen & Mark S. Daskin, 2005. "Trade-offs Between Customer Service and Cost in Integrated Supply Chain Design," Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, INFORMS, vol. 7(3), pages 188-207, September.
    8. Karatas, Mumtaz, 2017. "A multi-objective facility location problem in the presence of variable gradual coverage performance and cooperative cover," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 262(3), pages 1040-1051.
    9. Zhu, Xiaoke & Yu, Xiaohua, 2025. "Food inflation and macroeconomic dynamics in the US: Evidence from an estimated DSGE model," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 75(C).
    10. Anisa Dwi Utami & Harianto Harianto & Bayu Krisnamurthi, 2023. "Exploring the pattern of price interdependence in rice market in Indonesia in the presence of quality differential," Cogent Economics & Finance, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(1), pages 2178123-217, December.
    11. Leonardo Hernán Talero-Sarmiento & Henry Lamos-D�az & Edwin Alberto Garavito-Hern�ndez, 2019. "Evaluación de la hipótesis de eficiencia débil y análisis de causalidad en las centrales de abastos de Colombia," Apuntes del Cenes, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de Colombia, vol. 38(67), pages 35-69.
    12. Ozgur Turetken, 2008. "Is your back-up IT infrastructure in a safe location?," Information Systems Frontiers, Springer, vol. 10(3), pages 375-383, July.
    13. Thibault Lemaire & Paul Vertier, 2025. "International Commodity Prices Transmission to Consumer Prices in Africa," The World Bank Economic Review, World Bank, vol. 39(3), pages 522-552.
    14. Santos Peñate, D.R. & Suárez-Vega, R. & Dorta González, P., 2001. "Un modelo de decisión multicriterio para la localización de centros de tratamiento de residuos," Estudios de Economia Aplicada, Estudios de Economia Aplicada, vol. 17, pages 163-182, Abril.
    15. Daniel Hyun & Jacky Lee, 2023. "Variations in Pass-Through from Global Agricultural Commodity Prices to Domestic Food Inflation," Discussion Papers 2023-24, Bank of Canada.
    16. Li, Qingxiao & Yang, Jinyang & Yang, Xiaoli & Mu, Endong, 2025. "Decompose food price disparities in China: Evidence from wholesale markets," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    17. Mehrabi, Zia & Delzeit, Ruth & Ignaciuk, Adriana & Levers, Christian & Braich, Ginni & Bajaj, Kushank & Amo-Aidoo, Araba & Anderson, Weston & Balgah, Roland A. & Benton, Tim G. & Chari, Martin M. & El, 2022. "Research priorities for global food security under extreme events," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 5(7), pages 756-766.
    18. Kaundinya, Deepak Paramashivan & Balachandra, P. & Ravindranath, N.H. & Ashok, Veilumuthu, 2013. "A GIS (geographical information system)-based spatial data mining approach for optimal location and capacity planning of distributed biomass power generation facilities: A case study of Tumkur district, India," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 52(C), pages 77-88.
    19. Zamora, Ana Paula & Solórzano, Johana & Paniagua, Javier, 2024. "Asymmetric Price Transmission: The Case of Potato and Onion in Costa Rica," International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics (IJFAEC), Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Department of Economics and Finance, vol. 12(2), April.
    20. Stefan Nickel, 1997. "Bicriteria and restricted 2-Facility Weber Problems," Mathematical Methods of Operations Research, Springer;Gesellschaft für Operations Research (GOR);Nederlands Genootschap voor Besliskunde (NGB), vol. 45(2), pages 167-195, June.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0294473. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: plosone (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/ .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.