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The Advocate:
Interview with Dara Cooper,
NYC Food and Fitness Partnership,
Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
Dara Cooper serves as the director of the NYC Food and Fitness Partnership, with extensive experience in local food systems, community access, community
health and community economic development.
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Race, Racism and Food Justice
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Simran Noor (Center for Social Inclusion) and Naa Oyo A. Kwate (Rutgers University) present at the February 17 Food Policy
for Breakfast Seminar on Race, Racism and Food Justice.
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Perspectives:
NYC Mayor Announces $150 Million Investment in Hunts Point Market
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio recently announced
that his administration will invest $150 million over 12 years in the South Bronx Hunts Point distribution center, a critical source of fresh food in New York City. We asked some NYC food observers to comment.
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Community Partner Spotlight:
Boriken Neighborhood Health Center
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Ribbon cutting at Boriken Neighborhood Health Center, June 2014
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Boriken's mission is to provide the highest quality comprehensive medical, dental, health education and social services to the residents
of East Harlem without regard to the individual patient's ability to pay.
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more here>>>
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Healthy Food Retail Networking Group
Quarterly Meeting & Summit Report
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John Stepanian (Community Solidarity, Inc.), Molly Hartman (Mayor's Office of Food Policy) and Nicholas Freudenberg
(NYC Food Policy Center at Hunter College) present at the February 2015 Healthy Food Retail Quarterly Meeting.
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Interested in healthy food retail? Download the 2014 Healthy Food Retail Summit Report and read our recap of the Healthy Food
Retail Networking Group's recent quarterly meeting.
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New York State Agriculture
A recent publication from the NYS Comptroller summarizes statewide data from the 2012 USDA Census of Agriculture. Here we highlight some
key numbers.
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more here>>>
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New York City Food Policy Watch is the monthly e-newsletter of the New York City Food Policy Center at Hunter College. We keep an eye
on food policy in New York City and on urban food policy around the nation and the world. We also provide updates on our own policy analyses and research activities and on the food policy activities of City University of New York faculty, students and staff.
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Upcoming Food Policy for Breakfast Seminars
March 17, 2015
Food Policy for Breakfast:
Eric Holt Gimenez,
Food First/Institute for Food and Development Policy: Putting the Public Back in Food
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April 21, 2015
Food Policy for Breakfast:
Barbara Turk, Mayor's Office of Food Policy: Toward a Global Urban Food Policy Pact
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Spring 2015 seminars held at
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Student-created counter marketing campaigns against fast food companies in a pilot workshop
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We are pleased to announce that we are the recipients of a grant from the Levitt Foundation to support our East Harlem Youth Food
Educators Pilot program. This grant will enable us to engage young people in learning about healthy eating and food systems, improving access to affordable fresh and nutritious foods in their own neighborhoods.
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The New York City Food Policy Center develops intersectoral, innovative and effective solutions to preventing diet-related diseases and promoting
food security in New York and other cities. The Center works with policy makers, community organizations, advocates and the public to create healthier, more sustainable food environments and to use food to promote community and economic development. Through
interdisciplinary research, policy analysis, evaluation and education, we leverage the expertise and passion of the students, faculty and staff of Hunter College and the CUNY School of Public Health and other CUNY campuses.
The Center aims to make New York a model for smart, fair food policy.
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