Food Policy Forum
A New York City Food Policy Forum: Fresh Ideas on Farms and Food
Posted November 24th, 2007 by Nevin CohenSubmitted by FSNYC Member Nevin Cohen, The New School
On September 5th, Food Systems Network NYC, The New School, and Farm Aid organized The New York Food Policy Forum, a meeting of leading food and farm activists, local and state policy makers and food and agriculture experts. The goal was to identify strategies to strengthen the region’s food system through policies that support family farms, increase access to healthy food, and build connections among urban consumers and the farmers within the metropolitan region’s foodshed....
Below you will find questions from audience members that we did not have adequate time to address at the Food Policy Forum. Please enjoy reading them, and if you have a comment, post back!
Strategies for Organic
Posted November 24th, 2007 by AnonymousWhat are the most promising strategies for bringing down the cost
of organic, locally grown food so that it can compete with conventional industrialized agriculture?
Quality Counts
Posted November 27th, 2007 by AnonymousIs NYC still serving milk with rBGH (bovine growth hormone) to schoolchildren, and if so, how can we stop this and serve organic milk and organic soy beverages?
Measuring Success
Posted November 27th, 2007 by AnonymousWhat are some of the criteria used to measure the success of local food systems, other than numbers of farmers’ markets and CSAs?
Who does the measuring?
Are there numbers that you would really like to know but that on one collects? What are they?