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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 Highlights / Research Highlights / Upcoming Events / Recordings from [...]

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 commits the city to Good Food Purchasing based on a [...]

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 different sources. Our motivation was to bring these data together [...]

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 in four of the five boroughs. It served as a [...]

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 Society, and Montefiore Medical Center, GrowNYC distributed thousands of fresh [...]

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 New York City’s food policies and programs and propose specific [...]

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 of food delivery workers, particularly those employed by digital platform-based [...]

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 the pandemic on New York City’s food policies and programs [...]

Seeking healthy New Yorkers between the ages of 18-26 years for participate in a research study! The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute is conducting a research study about young people’s exposures to predatory food and beverage marketing in community and digital environments. If interested in the study, you will be asked to fill out a short enrollment screener form. The total number of participants is [...]