References
Every claim with a citation on this site is traceable. Where we cite a number, you can find the primary source within two clicks. Where the data are contested, we say so. Where a stat is older than five years and no fresher data exist, we flag it.
15 sources · last updated as the site is updated.
Dataset
U.S. Department of Commerce
U.S. Census Bureau
The federal demographic and economic baseline for the region. ACS provides household income distributions, family composition, language and educational attainment, and geography of poverty across Nevada. This is the broader context that grounds food-security data in the realities of the population we’re talking about.
Report
Food Bank of Northern Nevada
Food Bank of Northern Nevada
The Food Bank of Northern Nevada’s annual reports, audited financials, and regional hunger-relief briefings. The local-anchor source for distribution volumes, mobile-pantry reach, and the demographics of neighbors served across the region.
Dataset
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA Economic Research Service
Federal mapping tool that identifies low-income, low-access census tracts using distance to the nearest supermarket and household vehicle access. The authoritative U.S. dataset for talking about food deserts and structural food access at the neighborhood scale.
Report
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA Economic Research Service
USDA’s annual statistical report on food security in U.S. households, drawn from the Current Population Survey. Defines the federal vocabulary for food insecurity (low, very-low) used by policymakers, researchers, and food banks nationwide.
Dataset
Feeding America
Feeding America
Annual county- and state-level estimates of food insecurity across the United States, including overall food-insecurity rates, child food-insecurity rates, and meal-gap calculations. The standard reference for translating national hunger data into local numbers.
Report
2024
State of Nevada
Nevada Council on Food Security
The Nevada Council on Food Security’s annual report on statewide food-security programs, partnerships, and progress. The state-government anchor for food-security claims and the most direct line to Nevada’s formal policy infrastructure on the issue.
Report
University of Nevada, Reno
University of Nevada, Reno (Cooperative Extension)
Peer-reviewed extension publications, county-specific research bulletins, and community-facing guides from UNR Cooperative Extension. Covers regional agriculture, small-farm economics, native-plant landscaping, and home and community gardening across Nevada’s varied microclimates.
Report
The Xerces Society
The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
The leading U.S. organization for invertebrate conservation. Their publication library is the credible national reference on native pollinator status, habitat decline, and conservation practice. It is the right anchor for any general-audience claim about pollinators beyond the honeybee.
Dataset
State of Nevada, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources
Nevada Division of Water Resources
Authoritative state agency for Nevada water rights, basin status, and statewide water resource planning. The source for grounding food-system claims in Nevada’s actual water reality, including Truckee River basin reports, drought designations, and groundwater basin perennial yield estimates.
Dataset
2022
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
The 2022 Census of Agriculture release for Nevada: farm counts, acreage, operator demographics, irrigation and water-use practices, and production data at the state and county level. The authoritative federal anchor for Nevada-specific farming claims, including the 3,100-farm figure used across this site.
Report
University of Nevada, Reno
University of Nevada, Reno (Desert Farming Initiative)
Applied agricultural research from UNR’s certified-organic teaching and research farm, focused on water-efficient production, soil health, and crop suitability for the Great Basin. The credible local research voice on the production side of food security.
Dataset
U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service
The federal census of U.S. farms, taken every five years. The authoritative source for farm counts, acreage, operator demographics, water-use practices, and production data at the state and county level, including Nevada.
Report
City of Carson City, Nevada
Carson City
Carson City’s municipal development standards (Title 18 Appendix), which include landscape and right-of-way provisions favorable to pollinator habitat. Sections 3.3.2, 3.3.19, 7.3.4(f), and 7.3.4(h) are the operative pollinator-aware passages, cited as the regional model for any future pollinator-policy work in the Truckee Meadows.
Public-record artifacts (presentations, op-eds, testimony, and interviews) we draw framing from. These document a position or argument; they aren’t research datasets.
Talk
2026-04-27
Northern Nevada Food Council
Joseph Schmitt
“Food security is a systems outcome of pollinator health, water, soil, and access, not solely a logistics problem.”
A public presentation to the Northern Nevada Food Council framing food security as a systems outcome built on viable growers, functional logistics, healthy access, and ecological resilience, and arguing that pollinator health belongs inside the region’s food-security agenda alongside water, soil, and infrastructure.
The pollinator photographs on this site are used under the licenses listed below. All photographs are the property of their photographers. BTD’s use is for educational and conservation purposes.
Every claim with a citation on this site is traceable. Where we cite a number, you can find the primary source within two clicks. Where the data are contested, we say so. Where a stat is older than five years and no fresher data exist, we flag it.
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