IN THIS ISSUE: Feature Interview: Racial Equity and Institutional Food Procurement with Rebekah A. Williams and Jessica Gilbert-Overland / Policy Highlights / Research Highlights / Recording from our Urban Food Policy Forum on Racial Equity and Food Procurement / Opportunities EDITORIAL Greetings CUNY Urban Food Policy Monitor readers and members of our food policy learning [...]
Rebekah Williams is an organizer and trainer from Western New York and co-founder of Food for the Spirit, the Buffalo Food Equity Network, and the Good Food Buffalo Coalition. Jessica Gilbert-Overland is the Campaign Director of the Good Food Buffalo Coalition. In this feature interview for the CUNY Urban Food Policy Monitor, the Institute Managing [...]
IN THIS ISSUE: Visualizing Food Systems: A Q&A with Rebecca McLaren / Tracking the Effects of Values-Based Food Procurement: New York City’s “Cool Foods” Dashboard / Leveraging Public Data to Uncover Additional Insights: A Snapshot of School Meals / Building a Dashboard for Urban Agriculture: An International Participatory Data Collection and Analysis Project / Policy [...]
Image Credit: NYC Food Policy Last year, New York City made two important commitments to values-based food procurement, the process by which governments establish social, environmental health and other criteria for the food they buy in addition to cost parameters and technical standards. In February 2022, NYC’s Mayor Eric Adams signed Executive Order 8, which [...]
Image Credit: foodsystemsdashboard.org Can you briefly describe The Food Systems Dashboard and the motivation for creating it? Rebecca McLaren (RM): The Food Systems Dashboard (FSD) is an innovative data platform that was launched in 2020 to provide a holistic look at food systems. Previously, food systems data were difficult to access and scattered across many [...]
The Grainstand, a former GrowNYC Food Access and Agriculture program, operated from 2015-2021, with the mission of supporting the development of a regional small grain economy in the Northeast by bridging the gap to provide market access to both producers and consumers. The Grainstand operated a series of retail stands at GrowNYC’s Greenmarkets with operations [...]
The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute has worked closely with staff and leadership at GrowNYC to evaluate the implementation of the organization’s Fresh Food Box (FFB) program in the South Bronx, funded under USDA’s Community Food Project portfolio, for the period of September 2018 - August 2021. With partners Bronxworks, Urban Health Plan, Children’s Aid [...]
This research brief is one part of a 5-part series of research briefs published as New York Food 2025, a collective pursuit by the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center, the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, and the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute to examine the effects of the pandemic on [...]
By Elizabeth Abreu Plasencia [1], Nevin Cohen [2], Emilia Vignola [2], Sherry Baron [3], and Mustafa Hussein [2] [1] Queens College [2] CUNY School of Public Health/ Urban Food Policy Institute [3] Queens College, Barry Commoner Center for Health and the Environment As part of its ongoing effort to improve the working conditions and earnings [...]
NY Food 2025 This research brief is one part of a 5-part series of research briefs published as New York Food 2025, a collective pursuit by the Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center, the Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy, and the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute to examine the effects of [...]
