06/30/2022
Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of June 29, 2022
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โข NYC Food Policy Center June 2022 Food Flash (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข Farm-to-Table Meals for Schools, Offices, and Emergency Food Providers: Green Top Farms (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข ICYMI: Billion Oyster Project Is Working to Restore NY Harborโs Marine Ecosystem (nycfoodpolicy.org)
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โข Food-Insecure New Yorkers Feel the Squeeze From Rising Grocery Prices (Gothamist)
โข New York State Announces Expanded FreshConnect Checks Program for Veterans (Agriculture.NY.gov))
โข New York State Act to Reduce Hunger and Food Waste (Food Tank)
โข Grubhub’s ‘Serving the City’ Will Offer More Than 25,000 Meals to Communities in Need Across NYC (Street Insider)
โข Coalition Relaunches Petition Effort to Protect Community Gardens (NYN Media)
โข Midtown Restaurants Sued In Latest Chapter of NYCโs Outdoor Dining Saga (Eater)
โข Foie Gras Producers Sue to Block NYCโs Pending Ban (Restaurant Business)
โข Eleven Madison Park Reportedly Dropped Plans to Pay Staff More After Scathing Review (Eater)
โข Inspiring Food Stories: A Closer Look at Three Award-Winning S.I. Food Crafters (SI Live)
โข City Eateries Attempt to Master Permanent Booze-To-Go Offerings (Crainโs New York Business)
โข NYC & Company Invites Restaurants Across the Five Boroughs to Participate in the 30th Anniversary of NYC Restaurant Week (The City Life)
โข NYC Aims to Bring โInventive, Exciting’ Food Vendors to Its Iconic Parks for 1st Time (NBC)
โข Bourdain Day: These Are the New York and New Jersey Restaurants Anthony Bourdain Featured Over the Years (Gothamist)
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โข Congress Clears Bill to Extend Free Meals for Children Through the Summer (New York Times)
โข USDA Launches Feds Feed Families 2022 to Help Fight Food and Nutrition Insecurity (USDA.gov)
โข Giving People Cash Is Usually Better Than Shipping Them Food (Vox)
โข Foster Care Farm Fights Food Insecurity, Teaches Trade Skills (West Virginia Public Broadcasting)
โข Global Hunger Crisis Pushing One Child Into Severe Malnutrition Every Minute in 15 Crisis-Hit Countries (UNICEF)
โข Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Passage of Keep Kids Fed Act (USDA.gov)
โข Congress Just Passed A Bill To Help Schools Feed KidsโBut Itโs โToo Little, Too Lateโ for Many Districts (Mother Jones)
โข Global Food Crisis Tests Western Resolve to Retain Russia Sanctions (New York Times)
โข Are Food Shortages Causing Another Health Crisis? (Mashed)
โข Food Banks Fight โPerfect Stormโ of Inflation, Supply Issues, Worker Shortages (Post & Courier)
โข PSEG Long Island Gears Up To Fight Hunger This Summer (Patch)
โข Biden Meets With G7 to Talk About Ukraine, Inflation, Food Insecurity, Climate Change (NPR)
โข Biden, G-7 Leaders Will Try to Prevent Millions From Starving to Death After War in Ukraine Dramatically Escalated Food Shortages (USA Today)
โข โBuy Nothingโ Groups Are Doubling as Food Distribution Networks (Civil Eats)
โข โI Just Want to Live a Normal College Student Lifeโ: Student Government Report Finds One-Third of UT-Austin Students Are Food Insecure (The Daily Texan)
โข Curbing Hunger: Students Build Inventive Outdoor Food Pantry (Cornell Chronicle)
โข How — And Why — A Popular Dallas Skate Parkโs Vision Has Grown to Include Fighting Food Insecurity (WFAA)
โข Millions of Yemenis to Go Hungry as UN Forced to Slash Food Aid (Al Jazeera)
โข World Food Program Urges Nations Not to Forget Afghanistan as the Nation Recovers From Quake (PBS)
โข The Latest on Food Crises: The News Is Not Good (Food Politics)
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โข Food Deserts Deepen Urban Americaโs Racial Disparities (Financial Times)
โข How LGBTQI Folks Are Reclaiming Space on the Land (Sierra Club)
โข California to Become First State to Offer Food Benefits to Some Immigrants Who Live in U.S. Illegally (Los Angeles Times)
โข How Chef Omar Tate Is Spotlighting Black Farmers Across The Country (Gotham Mag)
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โข Hereโs The Latest Data On Climate And Food And Itโs Not Good (Forbes)
โข Personal, Planetary Health Drive Appetite for Plant-Based Foods (Smart Brief)
โข Native Growers Can Help the US Meet Its Climate Goals. Will the New Farm Bill Offer Enough Support? (The Nation)
โข Pollen and Heat: A Looming Challenge for Global Agriculture (Grist)
โข How to Stop Degraded Soil Damaging Food Security and the Climate (World Economic Forum)
โข Regenerative Agriculture and Climate Change: Report (Food Politics)
โข Can Finding New Culinary Markets for Green Crabs Help Curb the Invasive Species? (Modern Farmer)
โข Will a Name Change Make This Invasive Fish Species More Appetizing? (The Takeout)
โข Microplastics Might Be Entering Marine Food Webs From the Bottom Up (Phys.org)
โข The Oyster Farmers Working to Address Aquacultureโs Big Plastics Problem (Modern Farmer)
โข Biden Aims at China in New Illegal Fishing Policy Framework (Associated Press)
โข Dead Zone in Chesapeake Bay Forecast to Be Smaller This Year (Ag Insider)
โข Vilsack Announces Bioproduct Pilot Program Funded by Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (USDA.gov)
โข Op-Ed: Can Africa Be Sustainably Food Self-Sufficient? (Food Tank)
โข Meet the Peecyclers. Their Idea to Help Farmers Is No. 1. (New York Times)
โข Ways in Which Vertical Farming Can Benefit Our Environment (Earth.org)
โข Can Biofuels Really Fly? (Science)
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โข How Americans Cope With Inflation: Less Gas, Lots of Frozen Pizza and Cheap Coffee (CNN)
โข How Food Inflation Is Shaping the Shopping Habits of Price-Sensitive Consumers (Food Dive)
โข UK Food Prices Are Soaring and Plunging Millions Into Distress (Bloomberg)
โข The High Cost of Producing Cheap Food (Financial Times)
โข California Fights Inflation by Sending People Free Money (Reason Magazine)
โข Fourth of July Food Costs up 11% Due to Inflation: Wells Fargo (New York Post)
โข Increasing Food Costs Impacting Summer Cookouts (American Farm Bureau)
โข World Faces More Food Shortages and Ukraineโs Crop Headaches Persist (Bloomberg)
โข Involving Farmers Is The Key To Innovation And Better Ag (Honolulu Civil Beat)
โข GMO Salmon Is (Sort of) on the Market: Hereโs What It Means (Civil Eats)
โข Why Crypto Restaurants Were Destined to Fail (The Takeout)
โข Also Hit by Inflation? Your Local Taco Truck (NPR)
โข Inflation Killed the $1 Pizza Slice. Long Live the 99c Iced Tea (California Public Radio)
โข Are You a Conscious Consumer? Hereโs What That Means for Your Food Choices (The Beet)
โข Alternative Proteins 2050 โ What Does the Future Look Like? (Food Business News)
โข Food System Innovation in China (Stanford Social Innovation Review)
โข Speedy Grocery Delivery Remains A โHighly Specific Nicheโ, Report Says (Forbes)
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โข These Restaurant Companies Will Pay for Employees to Travel for Abortions (Restaurant Business)
โข Why Unionization Efforts are Not a Doomsday Event for Restaurants (QSR)
โข Food Industry Unions Struggle To Mimic Starbucks’ Success (Law360)
โข Organic Food Maker Amyโs Kitchen Faces Several Unfair Labor Practice Charges (Truthout)
โข Robot Server: Restaurant Turning To Futuristic Option Amid Worker Shortage (ABC)
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โข Restructuring the Food Program at FDA (Food Safety News)
โข Donโt Let Foodborne Illnesses Wreck Your Barbecue or Picnic. Food Safety Expert Shares Tips on How to Stay Safe. (Herald Times Reporter)
โข First Lawsuit Filed Against Daily Harvest (Food Safety News)
โข Attorney General James Demands Swift Federal Action to Protect Children From Toxic Metals in Baby Foods (AG.NY.gov)
โข Novel Food Wrap Offers Shelf Preservation (Harvard Gazette)
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โข The Center has created 59 Neighborhood Food Resource Guides. Click HERE to find your neighborhood.
โข The Center’s guides have been updated by more than 300 volunteers who have spent thousands of hours making more than 200,000 calls to keep data up-to-date.
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โข Making the Most of Existing Research: An Evidence Gap Map of the Effects of Food Systems Interventions in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries (BMJ Open)
โข Sowing a Plastic Planet: How Microplastics in Agrochemicals Are Affecting Our Soils, Our Food, and Our Future (Center for International Environmental Law)
โข How Policy Actors Assert Authority in the Governance of Food Marketing Policies (Food Policy)
โข The Integration of Food Policies in a Local Administration System: The Case of the Milan Food Policy (Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems)
โข Junk Food Accessibility After 10 Years of a Restrictive Food Environment Zoning Policy Around Schools (Journal of the American Planning Association)
โข Food Fight: Climate Change, Food Crises & Regional Insecurity (Australian Security Leaders Climate Group)
โข Transformations Towards Sustainable Food Systems: Contrasting Swedish Practitioner Perspectives With the European Commissionโs Farm to Fork Strategy (Sustainability Science)
