For more than 50 years, activists in New York City have been fighting to end hunger, increase access to healthy affordable food, improve the pay and working conditions of food workers, reduce food-related pollution and climate change, end food apartheid, and improve school and other institutional food. As New York prepares for city elections [...]
Co-sponsored by the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, this Grand Rounds lecture features Dr. Jess Fanzo, Professor of Climate and the Food for Humanity Initiative Director at Columbia University’s Climate School in New York City. Dr. Fanzo will provide a global to local overview of how fragile, yet important food systems are to climate [...]
Building a Community Food System at CUNY: How can we work towards building a student-centered campus food environment that prioritizes health, equity, and sustainability? The CUNY Campaign for Healthy Food (CHeF) invites all students, faculty, and staff to join us in envisioning strategies for transforming CUNY’s food system. We believe our campus should reflect a student-centered food environment [...]
