08/03/2023
Original Center stories, news, research studies and events for the week of August 2, 2023
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โข July 2023 Food Flash (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข Hunter College President Hosts CUNY Chancellor and Food Bank for NYC CEO on Purple Apron Food Pantry Tour (nycfoodpolicy.org)
โข CookShop Provides Nutrition Education to Elementary School Children and Families (nycfoodpolicy.org)
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โข Hereโs How NYC Families Can Find Free Summer Meal Sites (Chalkbeat)
โข Plastic Utensils Now Banned From Takeout Orders, Except by Request (Politics NY)
โข NYC Must Speed Up Food Stamp Application Processing Amid Backlog, Judge Rules (Pix 11)
โข Delivery Workers File Wage Theft Complaints Against Door Dash (The City)
โข Flushing Welcomes Back Greenmarket (Queens Chronicle)
โข Does This Brooklyn Housing Development Know the Secret to Long Life? (NY Times)
โข Chef Marcus Samuelsson and Jay Norris Launch Initiative to Foster Minority-Owned Businesses (Harlem World)
โข Tip or No Tip? Over 65% Of US Have โNegativeโ View on Tipping, New Study โ Hereโs What NYers Say (NBC New York)
โข NYCโs Outdoor Dining Regulations Could Face Council Vote This Week (Gothamist)
โข Corona Plaza Vendors Rally Against City Hallโs Latest Enforcement Sweep (Gothamist)
โข DoorDash, Legal Group Set to Deliver Free Legal Clinics on Immigration to Workers (Gothamist)
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โข Back-To-School Season Crunches Budgets (The Food Institute)
โข Sugarflation Frustration (The Food Institute)
โข How Soon Will Cultured Meat Impact Plant-Based Sales (The Food Institute)
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โข United States to Assume the Presidency of the United Nations Security Council for the Month of August With a Focus on Food Insecurity and Human Rights (US Mission to the UN)
โข Food Security and Racial Equity Go Hand-in-Hand, Advocates Say (San Diego Union Tribune)
โข As Communities Struggle With Food Insecurity, Study Shows Impacts on Youth Mental Health (Toronto City News)
โข Funding Crisis Cuts Off Food Aid to Millions As Acute Hunger Surges Worldwide, UN Says (PBS)
โข Global Food Security Concerns After Russia Attacks Ukraine Grain Infrastructure (Successful Farming)
โข โHunger Is Not Only About Foodโ: Ukraineโs Infrastructure Damage Threatens Global Nutrition Security (Nutrition Insight)
โข Is the Committee on World Food Security Fit for Purpose? (Devex)
โข What Are the Real Reasons for the Global South Food Crisis? (The Nation)
โข New Projects Launched To Improve Food Security, Reduce Malnutrition (PML Daily)
โข Fetterman Introduces Food Security Bill for Strikers (WTAJ)
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โข Federal Leaders called on to Bring Whole Milk Back to Schools (Morning Ag News)
โข Bad Vibes in the House Ahead of Farm Bill (Food Fix)
โข Senator Booker Introduces Legislation to Protect Farmland from Corporate Consolidation (Booker.senate.gov)
โข House Dems Sideline One of Their Own Leaders in the Fight Over Food Stamps (Politico)
โข Cong. McGovern Introduces New Bill to Support American Farmers and Rural Communities Through Plant-Based Food Production (House.gov)
โข US Specialty Crop Growers Welcome Legislation (Morning Ag Clips)
โข Finding Childcare Is Near-Impossible in Rural Communities. Bipartisan Policies Can Fix That (Food Tank)
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โข Influencers Built Up This Wellness StartupโUntil They Started Getting Sick (Businessweek)
โข Trader Joeโs Recalls Cookies and Falafel Because They โMay Contain Rocksโ (NY Times)
โข A New Study Says EATS Act Could Do a Lot of Damage, Including to Food Safety (Food Safety News)
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โข A Requiem for Diet Soda (New York Times)
โข Farm Kids are Experiencing High Rates of Anxiety and Depression (Ambrook Research)
โข USDA Challenged on Illegal GMO Use in Organics (Organic Eye)
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โข Threatened by Climate Change, Food Chain Workers Demand Labor Protections (Civil Eats)
โข How Extreme Heat Hits Americaโs Hungry (Axios)
โข Reduce Food Waste at Home With These Sistersโ Restaurant-Tested Tips (The Washington Post)
โข India Cuts Rice Exports, Triggering Panic-Buying of Food Staple by Some Indian Expats in the US (AP News)
โข Silkworm Sashimi, Cricket Curry on Menu As Bugs Make a Comeback in Japan (Reuters)
โข German Supermarket Trials Charging True Climate Cost of Foods (The Guardian)
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โข As Farmworkers Form First Unions in NY, Rights of H-2A Workers Questioned (Times Union)
โข The East End Food Institute is Building a Better Food Network (Edible East End)
โข Long Island Legacy Farms Struggle to Survive as Pressures Mount (Newsday)
โข Sexual Violence a Pervasive Threat for Female Farm Workers (Morning Ag Clips)
โข World Farmersโ Organization Firmly Rejects Lab-Grown Food (Poultry World)
โข Ukrainian, Polish Farmers Call for Solutions Amid Global Food Security Threat (Voice of America)
โข Global Food Security Concerns After Russia Attacks Ukraine Grain Infrastructure (Successful Farming)
โข Italyโs Cheesemakers Cool Their Cows to Keep the Milk Flowing (Financial Times)
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โข Food Innovation Lab Expands Entrepreneurship Potential at Cornell AgriTech (Cornell CALS)
โข A Celebration of Food and People: Wegmans Grocer to Open in East Village (AM NY)
โข As Vertical Farms Topple, Can Tech Sow Sustainability Into Controlled Environment Agriculture? (Food Navigator)
โข Lab-Grown Meatโs Big Ambitions (Axios)
โข Investing in Farmersโ Markets as Vehicles for Innovation (Food Tank)
โข Sustainability Drives Food and Beverage Packaging Innovation (Food Processing)
โข Italy: โฌ15 Million Investment To Build a Vertical Farm in Agnadello (Vertical Farm Daily)
โข VC Fund Wants To Embed Culture Into Food Innovation (Green Biz)
โข US Fast-Food Chains Report Fatter Margins as Cheese, Chicken, Avocado Costs Fall (Reuters)
โข Caribbean Food Businesses Juggle Influx of Refugees, NAACP Convention (Biz Journals)
โข Food Businesses Receive Part of City of Boston Grant to Fill and Revamp Vacant Storefronts (Boston.gov)
โข Virginia Food Bank to Mix Education, Food Production (Morning Ag Clips)
Food as Medicine (Provided by the Center For Food As Medicine)
โข ยกMรกs Fresco! Plus: Produce Prescription Program Spotlight (foodmedcenter.org)
โข How the Gus Schumacher Produce Prescription Program Works: An Adaptation of a Nutrition Incentive Theory of Change (Nutrients)
โข More Than Just Medicine: Evaluation of the Addison County Farmacy Program (The University of Vermont)
โข Report: The 4 Challenges Facing the Food as Medicine Movement (MedCity News)
โข Can a Healthy Diet Treat Disease? Why Some Argue Food Is Medicine (WGBH)
โข Second Harvest To Launch โFood as Medicineโ Initiative To Screen People for Food Insecurity (The Mercury 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 What is Sustainable Agriculture? (SARE)
โข Resources Planning Act Assessment (USDA)
โข Identifying Opportunities for Collective Action Around Community Nutrition Programming Through Participatory Systems Science (Cancer Causes & Control)
โข The Rising Opportunity for Resilience in Rural America (E2: Healthy Soils)
โข Establishing Sustainability or Sustaining the Established: An Agroecological Analysis of Recent Canadian Food Policy (University of Ottawa Research)
โข Taking Action To Protect Children From the Harmful Impact of Food Marketing (Unicef and World Health Organization)
โข Millets as a Key to Improving Food and Nutrition Security and Promoting Sustainable Consumption (Observer Research Foundation)
โข The Routes to Fruit: Governance of Urban Food Trees in Canada (Urban Forestry & Urban Greening)
โข Exploring the Impact of Collaboration Processes on Policy Networks Success: A Case Study of Food Policy Councils (Public Management Review)
โข Healthy Diets, Costs and Food Policies in the Sahel and West Africa (OECD)
โข Physician-Chef-Dietitian Partnerships for Evidence-Based Dietary Approaches to Tackling Chronic Disease: The Case for Culinary Medicine in Teaching Kitchens (Journal of Healthcare Leadership)
โข Scoping Review of the Association of Plant-Based Diet Quality With Health Outcomes (Revised 7/3/23) Submitted for Special Issue on Food as Medicine With American College of Lifestyle Medicine Authors and Contributions (Nutritional Epidemiology)
