11/16/2022
NYC Food Policy Center
Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of November 16, 2022
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๐ก๐ฌ๐๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐.๐ผ๐ฟ๐ด ๐ข๐ฟ๐ถ๐ด๐ถ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐
โข Research Strategy Aims to Create Sustainable Solutions to Global Hunger (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข Urban Agriculture in NYC: Research Roundup (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข ICYMI: Interview with Dr. Joe Bozeman III, Climate and Food Expert (nycfoodpolicy.org)
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ช๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ธ๐น๐ ๐ก๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐
๐๐ ๐ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ธ๐ด
โข 40% of NYC Food Stamp Applications Left Waiting For Benefits, Data Shows
โข New York City, Once a Minimum Wage Leader, Now Lags Behind (The New York Times)
โข Thanksgiving Turkey Prices Will Hit a Record This Year, NYC Grocery Chain CEO Warns (Fox Business)
โข Fixing a Plate: Food Bank for New York City chats Thanksgiving hunger with AMNews (Amsterdam News)
โข The Street Vendor Project Fights for NYCโs Smallest Businesses (James Beard Foundation)
โข City Harvest Volunteers Package Food for Families in Need (CBS)
โข How This Innovative Building Helps Feed 1.5 Million New Yorkers (Architectural Digest)
โข Planning the Future for Harlemโs Beloved Sylviaโs Restaurant (Harvard Business Review)
โข Another Starbucks In Queens Files For A Union (Patch)
โข Scallops Keep Dying in Long Islandโs Peconic Bay, Harming the Local Fishing Community (Gothamist)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ด๐ฆ๐ค๐ถ๐ณ๐ช๐ต๐บ & ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ค๐ค๐ฆ๐ด๐ด
โข Food Security and Family Planning Are Linked (Food Tank)
โข Recommit to the Right to Food – UN Expert (United Nations)
โข Towards an Informed, Transparent, and Accountable Response for Global Food and Nutrition Security (World Bank Blogs)
As Thanksgiving Approaches, Food Programs Prep for More Need Amid Inflation (Lohud)
โข As Thanksgiving Approaches, NJ Food Insecurity Is Getting Worse (WPG)
โข Hereโs How Boston Is Addressing Food Insecurity Ahead of Thanksgiving (Boston.com)
โข Whatโs Changed Since the Tops Mass Shooting? Addressing Food Insecurity (WIVB4)
โข Ending Hunger and Food Insecurity in Chicago Requires a Plan and Data (Crain’s)
โข Lobo Food Pantry Breaks Stigmas and Tackles Food Insecurity (New Mexico Daily Lobo)
โข โA Food Desertโ: College Campuses in NM Often Face Food Insecurity (Albuquerque Journal)
โข Too Many Veterans Battle With Hunger (FRAC Chat)
โข Food Insecurity Among Veterans (The Brian Lehrer Show)
โข Food Bank for Veterans Feeds Thousands This Year (Spectrum News)
โข Wheat Grown Indoors Offers Promise for Global Food Security (Bloomberg)
โข New Dashboard to Track Food and Nutrition Security and Global Response (Relief Web)
โข USC Researchers Track Food Insecurity Post-pandemic (Daily Trojan)
โข Food Insecurity Is Driving Women in Africa Into Sex Work, Increasing HIV Risk (NPR)
โข Torrential Floods Impact Food Security in West and Central Africa (Al Jazeera)
โข Somalia Faces a Food Insecurity Crisis Because of Extreme Drought (NPR)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ญ๐ช๐ค๐บ
โข ‘Groundbreakingโ Decisions Advance Use of Medicaid Funding for Nutrition
โข With the Outcome of Midterm Elections Unclear, Food-Aid Programs for Low-Income Americans Hang in the Balance (Market Watch)
โข Whatโs Up with Food Systems at COP27? (Food Politics)
โข Fast-Food Workers to Stage Protest Over Opposition to New Labor Law (The Fence Post)
๐๐ค๐ฉ๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ญ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ
โข More Than 180 Organizations Urge Governor to Fund Healthy Meals for Students in 2024 Budget (Yahoo)
โข How Central New York College Campuses Are Reducing Food Waste (Spectrum News)
โข Voters Approve Prop. FF, Clearing Way for New School Meals Program Funded by Cutting Tax Breaks for the Wealthy (The Colorado Sun)
โข Schools Across The US Celebrate National School Lunch Week (Total Food Service)
๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ข๐ช๐ฏ๐ข๐ฃ๐ญ๐ฆ ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐บ๐ด๐ต๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ด
โข World Making Little Progress on Food Waste, a Big Climate Problem (Rueters)
โข Farming Feeds the World. We Desperately Need to Know How to Do It Better (Nature)
โข Fixing Food Production: Are We Too Late? (Forbes)
โข Replace Animal Farms With Micro-Organism Tanks, Say Campaigners (The Guardian)
โข How One Company Used Data to Create Sustainable Take-out Food Packaging (Harvard Business Review)
โข Making The Connections To Facilitate Responsible Waste Management (Forbes)
โข Sustainable Aquatic Food Systems for Climate Resilience (Food Tank)
โข Egg Whites Could be the Key to Cleaning Our Oceans (Modern Farmer)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ฉ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฐ๐จ๐บ & ๐๐ฏ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ท๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
โข From Science to CPG Series (Food Dive)
โข From Science Fiction to Reality, โNo Killโ Meat May Be Coming Soon (NPR)
โข Itโs Time to Rethink Food Subsidies in Favor of Food Innovation and Abundance (Whittier Daily News)
โข Why Restaurants Need to Start Thinking Like Tech Companies (Restaurant Dive)
โข Could Dissolvable Cranberry Film Replace Plastic Packaging Someday? (Modern Farmer)
โข What Investors Should Know About Investing in Food Innovation and Agricultural Technology (Nasdaq)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ช๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ด๐ด, ๐๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ฆ๐ด ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ฏ๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ
โข Food Inflation Comes Down Again in October (Grocery Dive)
โข Inflation Driving Food Insecurity During the Holiday Season (Yahoo News)
โข Study: 63% Of Small Restaurants Wanted Republicans to Control Congress (Restaurant Dive)
โข Is the Restaurant Industry as We Know It Over? (Times Union)
โข How Independent Operators Are Embracing Change and Reaping the Rewards (Restaurant Business)
โข Down to Business: Struggling Restaurants Continue to Close Across NY (The Daily Gazette)
โข Major Fast Food Chains Are Facing a Shortage of This Key Ingredient (Eat This, Not That)
โข Uber Ramps up Grocery Partnerships (Grocery Dive)
โข A Constant Barrage: US Companies Target Junk Food Ads to People of Color (The Guardian)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ณ๐ด
โข Animal Agriculture Is Dangerous Work. The People Who Do It Have Few Protections. (Civil Eats)
โข Labor Department Finds 31 Children Cleaning Meatpacking Plants (The New York Times)
โข โI Was Coughing So Hard I Would Throw Upโ (Civil Eats)
โข Fast-Food Workers to Stage Protest Over Opposition to New Labor Law (Los Angeles Daily News)
โข Doordash Enhances Driver Safety (Uber)
โข 5 Store-Level Changes Driving the Starbucks Union (Restaurant Dive)
โข After Issuing Return-To-Office Ultimatum, Musk Is Now Eliminating Free Meals for Twitter StaffโArguing No One Was Turning Up to Eat Them (Fortune)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฆ, ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ญ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ
โข Centering Gender Equity to Bring the World Back into Balance (Food Tank)
โข Urban Farms Are Stepping Up Their Roles in Communities Nationwide (Civil Eats)
โข La Reina Boricua Brings Puerto Rican Food to Akron Airport, Community (Akron Beacon Journal)
โข A Mexican American Artist Finds Heroes in Farmworkers (The New York Times)
๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฅ ๐๐ข๐ง๐ฆ๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐๐ถ๐ฃ๐ญ๐ช๐ค ๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ญ๐ต๐ฉ
โข FDA Advances the New Era of Smarter Food Safety, Finalizing Foundational Rule to Improve Traceability of Contaminated Foods (FDA)
โข FDA Finds Pesticides, Undeclared Colors, and Heavy Metals in Imported Foods (Food Safety News)
โข FDA Commits $41M to Support the Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (Food Safety Tech)
โข Highly Processed Foods Can Share the Addictive Qualities of Tobacco, Researchers Say (Virginia Tech)
๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ฑ ๐ฃ๐ผ๐น๐ถ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ต ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฝ๐ผ๐ฟ๐๐ ๐๐ถ๐ด๐ฒ๐๐
โข Health Care as a Partner in Federal Nutrition Programs: Call for Advocacy (Pediatrics Perspectives)
โข Association of Community-Level Food Insecurity and Glycemic Control Among Pregnant Individuals With Pregestational Diabetes (Primary Care Diabetes)
โข New Innovations in Agriculture: A Way Forward for Enhancing Agricultural Production and Productivity (Secondary Agriculture)
โข Highly Processed Foods Can Be Considered Addictive Substances Based on Established Scientific Criteria (Addiction)
โข Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program as a Health Intervention (Current Opinion in Pediatrics)
โข Food Security and Psychological Distress Among the Elderly in India (Review of Development and Change)
