11/11/2022
NYC Food Policy Center
Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of November 9, 2022
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โข NY Food 2025 Releases New Research and Recommendations to Create a Healthier, More Just and Sustainable Food System (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข Fast Food Council to Improve Working Conditions in CA Fast Food Industry (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข ICYMI: 10 Facts You Should Know About NYCโs Composting Efforts (nycfoodpolicy.org)
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ๐น๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐
๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด
โข New York Cityโs Fresh Produce Gets an Edge (The Packer)
โข Disabled Activists Are Building a More Inclusive Food Justice Future (Civil Eats)
โข What Do New York Food Banks Truly Need but Never Ask For? (WIBX)
โข As Food Insecurity Surges, Local Non-Profit Creates Bushwick Community Fridge to be Operated by Workers with Disabilities (BK Reader)
โข Bronx Pumpkin Smash Event Aims to Reduce Landfill Waste (NBC4)
โข Students From Red Hook Create Plastic Free Lunch Day, Schools Participate Nationwide (ABC7)
โข School in the Square Eliminates Single-Use Disposables With New Partnership (Food Service Director)
โข Fixing Food Production: Are We Too Late? (Forbes)
โข Meet Everytable, a Restaurant Chain Pricing Its Meals Based on Zip Code (Crainโs New York)
โข Entrepreneurs Tackling Food Insecurity in America (Food Business News)
โข NYCโs โMost Romanticโ Restaurant Accused of Having Segregated โAsian Cornerโ (New York Post)
โข Can Cultural Identity Be Defined by Food? (The New York Times)
โข How The Knish Became A New York City Staple (Tasting Table)
โข A Greenwich Village Oyster Bar Is Out After 25 Years โ And More Closings (Eater)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ & ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด
โข A Quarter of Children Being Raised by Grandparents Face Hunger (Washington Post)
โข New Report: Grandfamilies Face Food Insecurity Nationwide (Fox 13 Seattle)
โข What Is Free Food Worth? Study Estimates the Value of Food Pantry Services (Phys.org)
โข Looking for a Food Bank? Thatโs Gotten a Lot Easier (Forest Park Review)
โข Explainer: Why the Black Sea Grain Deal Is Vital for Global Food Security (VOA)
โข Food Rescue Organization Is Providing Massachusetts Students With Nutrition to Succeed (Somerville Times)
โข What Hurricanes Taught Puerto Rico About Feeding Itself (The New York Times)
โข One of Juneauโs Oldest Food Pantries Will Close This Month (KTOO)
โข Global Food Security Highly Dependent On Agtech (Croplife)
โข More Students Dealing With Food Insecurity [Video] (King 5)
โข Colorado Voters Will Decide Whether All Public School Students Get a Free Lunch (PBS)
โข โ29 Dollars for Grapes?!โ: Food Insecurity in Indigenous Communities Is Getting Worse (Yahoo Life)
โข Q&A: Public Health Leader on How Providers Can Better Assess Patients for Food Insecurity (Crainโs New York)
โข The Importance of Increasing the Resilience of Food and Nutrition Security to Climate Change (Food Tank)
โข How Maineโs Food Bank is Sharing its Power with Local Communities (Food Bank News)
โข Atlanta to Allocate $500,000 Toward Fighting Food Insecurity (Atlantic Journal-Constitution)
โข Inside Princetonโs Free Food Listserv (The Daily Princetonian)
โข โFascinating to Watch:โ Robots Start Food Delivery Across Ball State Campus (Star Press)
โข Torrential Floods in West Africa Hurt Food Security (Reuters)
โข Flooding Threatens African Food Supplies Just as Much as Drought (Yahoo)
โข China Plays the Long Game on Food Security (Farmers Guardian)
โข How Deep-Seated Sexism Is Making Food Insecurity Worse in Nigeria (The New Humanitarian)
โข Rising Inflation Forces Greater Attention to Food Insecurity in Africa (Foreign Policy Research Institute)
โข Investing in Science for Food Security in Africa (Alliance for Science)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐บ
โข Midterms Are Likely to Scorch Biden Climate Agenda for Agriculture (The FERN)
โข Organic Dairy Farmers Petition Usda for Drought Relief Funds (Food Policy)
โข Lawsuits Keep Rolling Back Unconstitutional Vegan ‘Meat’ Bans (Reason)
โข How Has China Maintained Domestic Food Stability Amid Global Food Crises? (World Economic Forum)
๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด
โข New Reports Make the Case for Food Systems as a Climate Solution (Food Tank)
โข Landfill Fight Illustrates New Yorkโs Heaping Trash Problem (New York Focus)
โข Sustainability Claims Behind Booming Food Technologies Lack Evidence, Study Finds (phys.org)
โข A New Look At How Vertical Farming Can Help Decouple Food From Nature (Forbes)
โข As Food Insecurity Skyrockets, Experts Warn the True Cost of Food Hasnโt Been Paid, and the Bill Is Due (ABC Rural)
โข Is Big Agriculture Finally Having a โCome to Jesusโ Moment? (Mother Jones)
โข Small-Scale Farmers Feed the Planet. They Should Not Be Overlooked in Our Fight Against Climate Change (World Economic Forum)
โข Egyptโs Food Supply in Danger as Farmers Struggle to Adapt to Climate Change (Wall Street Journal)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ
โข In a World of Lab-Grown and Processed Food, What Is โNaturalโ? (Food Navigator)
โข All Sizzle, No Steak: How Singapore Became the Centre of the Plant-Based Meat Industry (The Guardian)
โข The Future of Space Food: Using Bioengineered Yeast to Feed Humans Off-Earth (phys.org)
โข Scientists Get to the Core of the Honeycrisp Apple (Modern Farmer)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด, ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
โข Inflation Is a Triple Threat to Food and Nutrition Security. Hereโs Why. (The Equation)
โข Poor New Yorkers Hit By Inflationโs Impact On Benefits, Advocates Say (The Post Journal)
โข On Buffaloโs East Side, Inflation Intensifies the Daily Struggle to Buy Food (Market Place)
โข French Study Finds No Inflation Profiteering in Food Sector (Bloomberg)
โข Food Prices Soar, so Do Companiesโ Profits; Who Is Benefitting From Food Inflation? (WION)
โข Talking Turkey: Inflation Altering Thanksgiving Spending (The Food Institute)
โข Restaurant Sales Rise, Thanks to Higher Prices (Restaurant Business)
โข For Restaurants Still Struggling, Preserving Outdoor Dining Is Key to Their Survival (Restaurant Dive)
โข How Bad Is Restaurant Inflation? Hereโs What the Data Shows. (Restaurant Dive)
โข These Grocery Chains Are Lowering Thanksgiving Food Prices to Fight Inflation (Today)
โข Out-of-Stocks Cost Grocery Retailers Billions (The Food Institute)
โข Big Food and Beverage Firms Set to Miss Plastic Sustainability Targets (Just Food)
โข This Grocery Merger Would Be Bad News For Food Prices and Families (Food and Water Watch)
โข Grocery Prices Are Soaring. But This Food Favorite Is Getting Cheaper (CNN)
โข Minnesotaโs Worsening Drought Could Raise Food Prices (CBS)
โข Hungary Expands Food Price Caps as Egg Prices Almost Double (Bloomberg)
โข Soaring Food Prices Could Have Major Impact on Canadiansโ Health (CBC)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด
โข Itโs Time to Make Minimum Wage Laws Apply to All Workers (No, They Donโt at Present) (Food Politics)
โข Former Farmworker Says Overtime Pay Is โA Right We Deserve’ (Spectrum News)
โข Voters in Portland, ME to Decide Whether to Raise Wages for Workers (Food Tank)
โข Johns Hopkins University Food Service Workers Protest Over Fallout From Contract Negotiations (CBS Baltimore)
โข As Holiday Travel Season Approaches, Logan Food Workers Warn of a Strike if Contract Talks Stay Stalled (Boston Globe)
โข Trader Joeโs Accused of Bad Faith Bargaining by Union (Grocery Dive)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฆ, ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ
โข This Organization Aims to Provide Black Farmers With Capital (Modern Farmer)
โข This Nonprofit Is Providing Native American Communities With Access to Nutrient-Dense, Culturally Affirming Foodsโand Itโs Helping People Eat Healthier (Eating Well)
โข Culinary Tourism Seeing Growth (My Journal Courier)
โข How the West Deemed Eating With Your Hands โUncivilizedโ (The Juggernaut)
โข In This โBlack Power Kitchen,โ Joy and Activism Collide (Atlas Obscura)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฆ๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ
โข FDA Awards $41 Million to Support Food Safety Initiatives (New Food Magazine)
โข Food Crime โLikelyโ in Meat and Alcohol Sectors, Says Scottish Agency (Food Safety News)
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐
โข Describing the Experiences of NYC Food Workers During COVID-19 and Beyond: A Mixed Methods Study (NY Food 2025)
โข 2022 State of Grandfamilies Report: Released Nov. 2 (Generations United)
โข Food Group Consumption Patterns Among Children Meeting and Not Meeting WHOโs Recommended Dietary Diversity: Evidence From 197,514 Children in 59 Countries (Food Policy)
โข Creating a Culture that Supports Food Security and Health Equity at Higher Education Institutions (Public Health Nutrition)
โข A Systematic Scoping Review of the Sustainability of Vertical Farming, Plant-Based Alternatives, Food Delivery Services and Blockchain in Food Systems (Nature Food)
โข Social Protection, Food Security and Nutrition: Critical Enablers for Reducing HIV-Related Vulnerabilities Amongst Adolescents and Young People (Policy Brief) (World Food Program)
โข Plant-Based Animal Product Alternatives Are Healthier and More Environmentally Sustainable Than Animal Products (Future Foods)
