07/30/2022
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Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of July 27, 2022
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โข NYC Food Policy Center June 2022 Food Flash (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข 2022 Food Policy Changemaker Award: Danielle Nierenberg (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข Food Policy Media Award 2022: Stephen Satterfield (nycfoodpolicy.org)
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โข โNYCBenefitsโ Program Aims to Connect Eligible New Yorkers to Billions in Assistance (amNY)
โข Food Prices Hit Both Poor New Yorkers and the Food Pantries That Support Them (Gothamist)
โข Free Summer Meals in NYC: Hereโs What You Need to Know (SI Live)
โข In Focus on Location: Adrienne Adams Talks Food Insecurity (Spectrum News)
โข Driving Food Security via Educating High School Students on Sustainable Farming (Fresh Plaza)
โข NYCโs Crackdown on Illegal Dirt Bikes Curbs Delivery Workers (Documented)
โข NYC Restaurants Ordered Closed July 15 – July 22 (Patch)
โข Extreme Weather Is Soaking New York City. Community Gardens Can Help. (New York Times)
โข New York Seeks Feedback on Regulations to Limit Landfill Expansion, Update Organics Diversion Law (Waste Dive)
โข Amazon Fresh Sets Foot in Metro New York With Latest Stores (Supermarket News)
โข FRAC on the Move: A Taste of Street Advocacy (FRAC)
โข Feed the Homeless Initiative Lead by NYC Pastor Needs More Funding (amNY)
โข A Fake Sweetgreen Franchise Raises Questions About Chinatown Gentrification and Labor Disparity (Gothamist)
โข Central Parkโs Loeb Boathouse to Close Amid Rising Costs (CNN)
โข Goodbye to Mission Chinese Food and Its Complicated NYC Legacy (Bon Appetit)
โข James Beard Nominee Chef Calvin Eng of Bonnieโs is Reclaiming MSG (Edible Brooklyn)
โข Hot Dog Aficionados Flock to Upper East Side Mainstay Papaya King Before Anticipated Demolition (Gothamist)
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โข Chicago Food Pantries Are Serving More People but Seeing Fewer Volunteers (Chicago Sun Times)
โข New Feeding America Study Shares Truth About Food Insecurity In The US (Tasting Table)
โข This Founder Is Using Tech And Hospitality To Fight Food Insecurity (Forbes)
โข SNAP Updates To Know for Summer 2022 (Go Banking Rates)
โข The Global Food Crisis Shouldnโt Have Come As a Surprise (Foreign Affairs)
โข 40 Percent of Single Moms Face Food Insecurity. The Fall of Roe Will Plunge Them Deeper Into Poverty (Ms. Magazine)
โข There Is Still a Baby Formula Shortage (NPR)
โข FDA Announces Resources for Parents and Caregivers on Imported Infant Formula (Food Safety News)
โข As the Infant Formula Shortage Drags On, Food and Farm Workers Focus on Breastfeeding (Eater)
โข First COVID, Now Inflation. $52M Program to Feed NJโs Hungry Is Keeping Restaurants Open (Gothamist)
โข With No Questions Asked, This Minn. Pantry Reaches Way More People (Food Bank News)
โข County Partnership Produces โTouchlessโ Food Pantry (Sun Papers)
โข Urban Farmers Say Government Funding Would Help Solve Food Insecurity in N.J. (WHYY)
โข A Solution for the Food Crisis Is in Jeopardy After Russia Attacks Ukrainian Port (NPR)
โข Global Food Crisis Demands Urgent Western Response (Nasdaq)
โข Ukraine War Pushes Millions of the Worldโs Poorest Toward Starvation (Wall Street Journal)
โข Rise in Gasoline Prices Threatens Social Stability and Food Security in Latin America (CNN)
โข Russia Courts African Nations and Aims to Deflect Blame for Food Crisis (Wall Street Journal)
โข USAID Pledges Nearly $1.3 Billion to Support Food Security in the Horn of Africa (Food Tank)
โข The Horn of Africa Is Facing Drought and Food Shortages (NPR)
โข Man Asking for Food Money Cited for Soliciting Without a Permit: Avon Police Blotter (cleveland.com)
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โข Community, Tradition, and Food Bring Health in The Kitchenistas Documentary (Food Tank)
โข Meet the Group Thatโs Been Bringing Bison Back to Tribal Lands for 30 Years (Civil Eats)
โข Growing Resistance: How Black-Led Organizations Are Feeding Louisville (Modern Farmer)
โข The Grassroots Groups Shifting Ground on Land Justice (Resilience)
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โข What is the (Food and) Farm Bill and Why Does It Matter? (American Farm Bureau)
โข Taxing Sugar-Sweetened Beverages: A How-to Guide to Legislation (Food Politics)
โข Are TikTok Challenges Leading Kids to Eat More Junky Food? (MedPage Today)
โข USDA Awards over $70 Million in Grants, Increases Access to Local, Healthy Foods for Kids (USDA.gov)
โข Bill Signing: H.R. 8351 (whitehouse.gov)
โข House Democrats Urge More Vegetarian Meals in US Buildings (Bloomberg)
โข Agreement Aims to Boost Underserved Producers, Local Food Movement in Pennsylvania (Agri-Pulse)
โข United States Provides $476 Million in Urgent Food, Humanitarian and Development Assistance to the People of Somalia Amid Worst Drought on Record and Looming Famine (USAID.gov)
โข Panama to Regulate Prices of 72 Food Items to Ease Rising Living Costs (Reuters)
โข Biological Weapons Could Target DNA, Food Supply, Two U.S. Lawmakers Say (Axios)
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โข Climate Change Is Not Negotiable (New York Times)
โข The Case for Paying Carbon Taxes on Unsustainable Food (Popular Science)
โข Why Has Agriculture Been So Slow to Embrace the Use of Grey Water? (Modern Farmer)
โข Science and Innovation Are Key Accelerators for Transforming Agrifood Systems (ReliefWeb)
โข Putinโs War Should Change the Way the World Farms (Bloomberg)
โข As Weather Warms, Algae Blooms on Waterways Nationwide (Ag Insider)
โข Cutting Postharvest Food Loss and Waste (Food Tank)
โข How Families Can Waste Less Food (Washington Post)
โข Recycling Education Grants Must Address Food Waste (NRDC)
โข How Indigenous Sea Gardens Produced Massive Amounts of Food for Millennia (Smithsonian Magazine)
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โข Bidenโs Never-Ending Inflation Nightmare (Politico)
โข More Shoppers Buy Store Brands, Eating Into Big Food Companiesโ Sales (Wall Street Journal)
โข Inflation’s Silver Lining — Shoppers Choose Local Food Over National Brands as Prices Increase (Nebraska Public Media)
โข How Farms Decide Which Vegetables to Bring to Market (The Takeout)
โข Global Food Prices Are Finally Falling … But for How Long? (CNN)
โข The Taxability of Third-Party Food Delivery Services (CPA Journal)
โข Stadiums, Arenas and Concert Venues Differentiate Menus With Local and Mission-Driven Foods (Restaurants Business News)
โข Walmart Customers Are Spending on Food, and Not Much Else, as Inflation Takes a Toll (MarketWatch)
โข โShrinkflationโ in Restaurant Portions Causing Spike in Diner Complaints (New York Post)
โข Analysis: Food Delivery Companies Revamp for Cost-Of-Living Crunch (Reuters)
โข Why Gen Z Is Lukewarm About Dining Out (Saveur)
โข Melting Profits Threaten the Ice Cream Man (New York Times)
โข Anti-Racism Farmers Market Toolkit Released to Help Market Managers (Food Tank)
โข As the Ukraine Invasion Disrupts the Sunflower Oil Supply Chain, Small US Producers Step Up (Civil Eats)
โข Is the Minimalist Restaurant Menu Over? (Eater)
โข Restaurants Should Invest in Tech Tools: You Canโt Afford Not To (Restaurant News)
โข Inflation-Hit Consumers Are Trading Down to Chicken From Beef (Bloomberg)
โข Itโs Official: The Choco Taco Is Over (Eater)
โข McDonald’s Keeps Customers Coming, Despite Higher Prices (Bloomberg)
โข Meet the American Who Invented Buffalo Wings and Disrupted the Entire Chicken Industry (New York Post)
โข Forget Sidewalk Robots or Drones. In the Future, Food Could Travel to Your Home in Underground Pipes (The Spoon)
โข Sacramento Nonprofit Group Creates Training Program for Food Businesses on the Rise (KCRA)
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โข As Workers Push to Unionize, Food Companies Shut Down Their Worksites (Ag Insider)
โข First Starbucks, Then Amazon, Now a Korean BBQ Restaurant Union. Wage Workers Know They Deserve More (Los Angeles Times)
โข Starbucks Faces โIndefiniteโ Strike at a Boston Cafe (Restaurant Dive)
โข Chipotle Closes a Maine Store, and Workers Say Itโs Because of a Union Drive. (New York Times)
โข This Delivery Startup Was Valued at More Than $11 Billion. Then It Slashed Thousands of Workers (CNN)
โข Amazonโs First U.S. Union Faces an Uphill Battle After Historic Win at Staten Island Warehouse (CNBC)
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โข How Will the Obesity Epidemic End? With Kids. (USA Today)
โข F.D.A. Seeks Outside Review of Troubled Food and Tobacco Units (New York Times)
โข How To Implement a Strong Food Safety Culture (Food Safety Tech)
โข FDA Steps up Import Alerts for Decomposing Seafood, Pesticides in Food (Food Safety News)
โข FDA Warns Companies Across the U.S. About Import Violations (Food Safety News)
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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 Map the Meal Gap 2022: A Report on County and Congressional District Food Insecurity and County Food Cost in the United States in 2020 (Feeding America)
โข From Food Price Crisis to an Equitable Food System (The Lancet)
โข A Conceptual Framework for Understanding the Environmental Impacts of Ultra-Processed Foods and Implications for Sustainable Food Systems (Journal of Cleaner Production)
โข The Role of U.S. Policy in Advancing Circular Economy Solutions for Wasted Food (Journal of Cleaner Production)
โข Development of Uniform Food Information โthe Case of Front of Package Nutrition Labels in the EU (Archives of Public Health)
โข Building Social Resilience in North Korea Can Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on Food Security (Nature Food)
