FOOD POLICY FROM ELSEWHERE Globalization and neoliberal policies are shaping current food and agricultural systems. Food in cities and certain ideas regarding local food systems have emerged as counter-movements. As formulated in The Declaration of Nyéléni,1 food sovereignty refers to “the right of people to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and [...]
Amos Laar, Ph.D, a Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Health at the University of Ghana, visited the CUNY School of Public Health on Monday 2/11 to discuss his work to identify contemporary changes to the food environment in Ghana. Dr. Laar has written and presented extensively on maternal and young child nutrition, nutrition-related [...]
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 [...]
Perspectives from New York City and Métropole du Grand Paris Kristin Reynolds1 and Ségolène Darly2* *Equal authorship 1 Independent Scholar, New York, New York; 2 Université Paris 8, LADYSS, Saint-Denis, France Shifting Urban Agriculture Landscapes The landscape of urban agriculture – the growing of food and non-food products and the raising of livestock in and around cities— is [...]
Food Policy from Elsewhere This column introduces a new Food Policy Monitor feature Food Policy from Elsewhere. It will explore food policy innovations in other cities and nations for their relevance to New York City. In November, London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced the London transport network will ban junk food advertising on all modes of [...]
On November 28th, the City of Milan (Italy) together with the Barilla Center for Food and Nutrition Foundation (BCFNF) released a new report on the role of cities in advancing the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). FOOD & CITIES: The Role of Cities for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals offers a comprehensive account of [...]
In August 2018, delegates from the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute attended the fourth World Cities World Class University Network (WC2) Symposium on the topic of “Migration, the City, and the University” at Ryerson University in Toronto. The WC2 Network, of which CUNY is a member, brings together top universities based in ten global cities [...]
Above, Nicholas Freudenberg speaks on corporations and health at DeBalie, a public lecture hall in Amsterdam. In both Europe and the United States, public health regulation of the food industry is under attack. In both these major world markets, the global food industry is using its power and influence to oppose taxes on [...]
