Archives: Policy Brief

Growing a Regional Food Shed in New York

Introduction A stronger, more integrated New York City and State regional foodshed offers many potential benefits: increased access to healthy affordable regionally grown food, creation of new good food jobs in agricultural and urban communities, better protection of farmland, more sustainable regional agriculture that slows climate change and new upstate /downstate partnerships that can constitute [...]

Growing a Regional Food Shed in New York2022-04-05T11:57:35-04:00

Beyond Pathmark

Overview The closing of the Pathmark supermarket on 125th Street and Lexington Avenue makes it harder for the people of East Harlem to find healthy affordable food and raises important questions for the future of this community. In this policy brief, the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College describes the background for [...]

Beyond Pathmark2022-04-01T16:30:38-04:00
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