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 [...]
On Friday, October 20, 2017 The Fordham Urban Law Journal hosted its 2017 Cooper-Walsh Colloquium titled, “Taking A Bite Out of the Big Apple: A Conversation About Urban Food Policy” at the Fordham Law School Campus in Midtown Manhattan. The daylong event explored various topics related to issues of food access, food governance, food regulation [...]
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 [...]
Institute faculty leadership Nevin Cohen, Nicholas Freudenberg, and Senior Fellow Jan Poppendieck recently published an essay on food policy in spring 2017 volume of the Journal of Food Law & Policy. The essay, “Food Justice in the Trump Era: Priorities for Urban Food Advocates,” discusses the future of food policy under the Trump administration. “This [...]
Image above: Serving fresh vegetables at meal time. Credit: Mark Luinenburg. Photo courtesy of Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation. In New York and other cities, substantial evidence documents that community food environments interact with inequitable allocation of power, wealth, and services to shape the distribution of diet-related diseases and food insecurity. What role can local organizations [...]
This post also appears on Civil Eats. A recent discussion of how to unite food activists in New York City with the larger Trump resistance offers lessons and tools to create positive change everywhere. By Mark Bittman and Nicholas Freudenberg In the four months since Trump took office, many of our fears have come true. [...]
Nicholas Freudenberg, director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and Distinguished Professor of Public Health, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy, and Alyshia Galvez, Associate Professor, Lehman College, have written an op-ed appearing in the Dallas News asserting that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has led to dramatic changes [...]
Above: At the summit, Pastor Gwen Dingle from thePentecostal House of Prayer, Rev Dr. Kenjitsu Nakagaki from the New York Buddhist Council, Imam Abu Sayeed Amin from the Woodhaven Jame Masjid and Rabbi David Niederman from theUnited Jewish Organizations of Williamsburg offered the Invocation. On April 27, CUNY Urban Public Health Institute Director Nicholas Freudenberg [...]
Countermarketing Alcohol and Unhealthy Food: An Effective Strategy for Preventing Noncommunicable Diseases?Building on the Institute's work in youth countermarketing of unhealthy food, several Institute faculty and students, with Lori Dorfman at the Berkeley Media Studies Group have recently published an article in the 2017 Annual Review of Public Health on lessons from effective tobacco countermarketing [...]
Dear Readers: It will take us all some time to analyze the full implications of the outcome of the election and to understand the effects on food justice and health equity. As founders of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute at the CUNY School of Public Health, as public health researchers and advocates, and as [...]
