Two months ago, I was doing outreach for the Swipe Out Hunger CUNY Food Navigator program. We were hosting an information session and, in preparing for it, compiled a list of key food security stakeholders at CUNY. We view these as people who work directly with students and, as a result, are uniquely positioned to [...]
Photo source: Greg Mihailovich (@gregmihailovich) | Twitter At the end of March, the New York City Council passed and sent to the Mayor legislation that requires restaurants and other food service establishments to serve water, low-fat milk or 100% juice as the default drinks with children’s meals, rather than soda or other sugary drinks. Parents can [...]
Photo source: ncdalliance.org Two new reports by The Lancet, the British medical journal, provide important insights into deeper thinking on how to solve some of the most pressing global nutrition and food problems. The first, Food in the Anthropocene: the EAT–Lancet Commission on healthy diets from sustainable food systems concludes that food systems have the [...]
Using the legal system to remedy unjust food policies has a long history. Throughout the twentieth century, social reformers and lawyers have gone to court to make food safer, protect consumers, improve the pay and conditions of food workers, fight agricultural pollution, and help the hungry to gain access to food benefits. Beginning in the [...]
*A condensed version of this commentary was cross-posted on Civil Eats. In many ways, life in the 21st century has been much the same as it was in the 20th century. People go to work, school and spend time with friends and family in mostly the same ways they did sixty years ago. Moreover, many [...]
By Nicholas Freudenberg, Distinguished Professor of Public Health, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy; Founding Director and Senior Faculty Fellow, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute For the last five years, our Institute has been evaluating community food programs in 14 New York City neighborhoods. The map below shows the neighborhoods where we [...]
