Farms at NYCHA is a multi-site, multi-partner initiative to support the health and wellbeing of New Yorkers through an innovatively designed urban agriculture program. The initiative combines youth workforce development, healthy food production and distribution, resident engagement, and sustainable open space activation to contribute to positive community development. The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute worked [...]
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY More than 750,000 New Yorkers work in the food industry, making it one of the largest sectors in the city. Included in this workforce are fast food workers, grocery store cashiers, food deliverers, chefs, waiters, school cooks, workers in food manufacturing plants, and more. The food sector contributes significantly to New York’s [...]
Executive Summary The COVID-19 pandemic has devastated communities within New York City, across the United States, and throughout the world, but its effects have been particularly challenging for “essential workers,” individuals whose labor was necessary for the continued functioning of everyday life. Throughout the pandemic, these workers were expected to continue to show up to [...]
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, in New York and across the nation, college students were among the millions of Americans regularly facing food insecurity and hunger. The pandemic pushed many more, including students enrolled at City University of New York (CUNY) and State University of New York (SUNY), into food insecurity. It also highlighted [...]
Executive Summary The East End of Long Island is a place of remarkable contrasts. It is home to strikingly beautiful beaches, thriving and productive farms, and a bustling tourism industry. But the region’s high-income levels mask economic inequalities, its mansions overshadow the lack of affordable housing, and rising seasonal tourism and local food production conceal [...]
The NY Food 20/20 Project, a collaboration of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy; and Hunter College NYC Food Policy Center; is pleased to announce the release of a new report, Towards a NYC COVID-19 Food Response in 2021. This report includes evidence and recommendations to [...]
The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, in collaboration with Hunter College New York City Food Policy Center and Laurie M. Tisch Center for Food, Education & Policy at Columbia University have joined forces to monitor and assess New York City's food system response to COVID-19 to date and over the next 18 months. Our organizations collaborated to produce [...]
Download Executive Summary Executive Summary CUNY provides tens of thousands of New Yorkers with the lifelong benefits of a college degree. For too many students, however, food insecurity and other unmet basic needs can undermine the promise of higher education, delaying graduation or contributing to dropout. Too often, students like those quoted above describe how [...]
Download Executive Summary Download Appendices Note to Readers: This report is based on information available through October 25, 2019. Since the process for budget allocation and spending is dynamic and since this report relies on a variety of not always consistent public sources of evidence, we ask readers to send additions, corrections or suggestions to this report to [...]
Download Executive Summary Executive Summary The Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP) is a comprehensive effort to harness the power of municipal institutional food procurement to achieve social, environmental, and economic goals through the promotion of better food purchasing practices. Specifically, the program provides a metric-based, flexible framework that prioritizes five core values: local economies, environmental [...]
