This forum focuses on how cities can use food as a lever for climate change mitigation and the reduction of their Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. Can cities change institutional food to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions? What are the opportunities and barriers, and how do we track success? What does it mean for cities [...]
The topic of this forum is Food is Medicine, focusing on the policies to replicate, scale, and finance food as medicine programs, from medically-tailored meals to prescription produce programs. On February 24, join the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and guest practitioners and policy experts to learn more about the most recent developments in [...]
Inequality in America manifests in many ways, but perhaps nowhere more than in how we eat. Whether it's worrying about how far pantry provisions can stretch or whether there's enough time to get dinner on the table before soccer practice, all families have unique experiences that reveal their particular dietary constraints and challenges. By [...]
App-based food delivery workers have kept New Yorkers fed throughout the pandemic despite facing low pay, harassment, traffic injuries, and lack of basic labor protections. Thanks to the organizing efforts of Los Deliveristas Unidos, a movement of mostly immigrant food delivery workers, and their advocates, the New York City Council passed a first-in-the-nation package [...]
The UN has described its Food Systems Summit, an 18-month process culminating on September 23, 2021, as a “peoples’ summit,” bringing together food producers, Indigenous communities, youth activists, researchers, and business leaders to identify strategies to transform the global food system in support of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Yet hundreds of civil society [...]
Digital technologies—such as online food pantry ordering systems and SNAP online pilot projects for grocery shopping—are increasingly being explored as tools to facilitate food access and reduce food insecurity. The twin public health and economic crises triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic further accelerated these trends and intensified the need to use online technologies to [...]
Incentives to promote healthy eating, such as the Health Bucks program in New York City, are government-funded initiatives that aim to close the nutrition gap among populations that are disproportionately affected by poverty and poor access to high quality, affordable fruits and vegetables. In this forum, public officials, service providers, community-based organizations, researchers, and [...]
In this session, key New York City food policy makers will present the City’s newly released first ever 10-Year Food Policy Plan “Food Forward NYC” and will be joined by fellow food policy leaders from other cities to reflect on the next steps in the plan implementation and key lessons from similar policies being implemented [...]
Food and gentrification are deeply—and, at times, controversially—intertwined and are likely to be even more complex as cities attempt to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyday practices such as growing, purchasing, and eating food reflect the rapid—and contentious—changes taking place in American cities in the twenty-first century. From hipster coffee shops to upscale restaurants, [...]
The continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and food workers, the deepening economic crisis brought by the pandemic, and the continuing disruptions from climate change demand rethinking how federal food policies can contribute to improved human and planetary health. In November 2020 voters chose their next president and Congress, creating the [...]
The continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and food workers, the deepening economic crisis brought by the pandemic, and the continuing disruptions from climate change demand rethinking how federal food policies can contribute to improved human and planetary health. In November 2020 voters chose their next president and Congress, creating the [...]
Young people are an untapped force for public health and food justice movements. In fact, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic many young adults have risen to the challenge and demonstrated that they have the ideas, energy, and passion to lead in fighting hunger in their communities and fill the gaps in our [...]
