Archives: Food Policy

Institute Director Nick Freudenberg’s featured blog post on Dispatches from the Centre for Food Policy, City University of London

Earlier this month, Institute Director Nick Freudenberg wrote a guest post for the City University of London's blog, Dispatches from the Centre for Food Policy. The focus of the post was a summary of the Institute's recent report, Food Policy in New York City Since 2008: Lessons for the Next Decade. Read the full blog [...]

Institute Director Nick Freudenberg’s featured blog post on Dispatches from the Centre for Food Policy, City University of London2022-07-23T23:25:44-04:00

Q and A on the Use of Food Policy Litigation to Advance More Equitable Food Systems

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 [...]

Q and A on the Use of Food Policy Litigation to Advance More Equitable Food Systems2022-07-24T00:54:09-04:00

Join the Healthy Food Access Policy Network

In response to the rapidly changing political landscape and building on the success of the Healthy Food Access Portal, PolicyLink, Reinvestment Fund, and the Food Trust have introduced a new Healthy Food Access Policy Network. The Network will serve as a central space to engage advocates through monthly newsletters. Members can: learn about local, state, [...]

Join the Healthy Food Access Policy Network2022-07-24T01:59:53-04:00

2016 Food Policy Action Scorecard

Food Policy Action has released its annual scorecard of congressional action on the votes and bills that form the food policy landscape of the United States in 2016. Compared to the 113th Congress, this year legislators improved 6 percentage points overall from an average score of 51% up to 57% across both chambers. What is the [...]

2016 Food Policy Action Scorecard2022-07-26T16:08:02-04:00

Oversight Hearing on Zoning and Incentives for Promoting Retail Diversity and Preserving Neighborhood Character

On September 30, 2016 the New York City Council Committee on Small Business and Subcommittee on Zoning and Franchises held an oversight hearing on Zoning and Incentives for Promoting Retail Diversity and Preserving Neighborhood Character. Nevin Cohen, Research Director at the Urban Food Policy Institute, prepared and delivered testimony focusing on the challenges and opportunities [...]

Oversight Hearing on Zoning and Incentives for Promoting Retail Diversity and Preserving Neighborhood Character2022-07-24T03:10:29-04:00

Food Policy Brief: Illuminating the “Hidden” Food Policies of the de Blasio Administration

In response to growing attention to inequality, several progressive cities in the United States have adopted policies that seek to modify the differences in employment, education and housing conditions that are upstream drivers of the socioeconomic and racial/ethnic disparities in health that characterize our city and nation.[1-5] Can these upstream interventions also contribute to reducing [...]

Food Policy Brief: Illuminating the “Hidden” Food Policies of the de Blasio Administration2022-07-24T03:15:34-04:00

CUNY Urban Food Policy Forum on Food and the 2016 Election

Most observers of the 2016 election would agree that to date food and food policy has not been a front burner issue. But are there other top tier election issues that could provide an opening for food advocates—climate change and energy policy, trade policy, income inequality and minimum wage, the role of government in safety [...]

CUNY Urban Food Policy Forum on Food and the 2016 Election2022-07-24T03:18:03-04:00
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