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Food Systems Network NYC is a volunteer-run, member-driven organization. We can't do our work without your help!
Become a FSNYC member today!
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Food Systems Network NYC
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Brings together organizations,
professionals, and community advocates dedicated to nourishing New Yorkers and enriching the regional farm community through collaboration, education, and advocacy.
FSNYC holds Open Networking Meetings the second Tuesday of each month. For more information, email info@foodsystemsnyc.org
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Special thanks to the following FSNYC members and friends for their contributions to this month's website and newsletter: Heidi Dolnick, Greenmarket Farm Retention Coordinator; Lynn Fredricks, Family Cook Productions; Rosalin Luetum; Kerry Trueman; Eric Weltman, Food and Water Watch; |
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Interested in food current events and policy issues? Enjoy writing?
The FSNYC Communications Committee is always seeking contributors. Join the team and add your ideas to our newsletter!
Contact us:
Caitlin Salemi - Newsletter Editor
Lynn Fredricks - Communications Committee Chair
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March Open Networking Meeting
New York City and The Future Of Urban Agriculture
Date: Tuesday, March 13th
Time: 12:30pm-2:00pm
Location:Fund for the City of New York, 121 Avenue of the Americas, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10013
As more exciting urban agricultural projects take root in New York City, we need to evaluate the potential for and the limitations on urban agriculture in the City. Whether it's rooftop farming, living walls, floating gardens, vertical farms, aquaponic or hydroponic, it seems there are no shortage of ideas when it comes to food production in the city. Also, the potential benefits of these projects extend well beyond the production of food and stand to improve the social, ecological, and economic well-being of the City. But, what can we realistically achieve? And, how do we make it happen? This program will examine the complexities urban agriculture; the capacity for urban crop production in NYC; the limitations and obstacles; and what the future of urban agriculture can and should be.
Speakers:
* Kubi Ackerman, Project Manager, The Urban Design Lab at Columbia University, author of " The Potential for Urban Agriculture in New York City: Growing Capacity, Food Security, & Green Infrastructure"
* Ian Marvy, Co-founder and Executive Director, Added Value
Moderator:
* Christina Grace, Project Director, Living City Block and member of the Floyd Bennett Farm Planning Committee
Please Note: There is a suggested $5 donation fee to attend this event for non-members. To become a FSNYC member visit: http://foodsystemsnyc.org/joinnow
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Farm Bill 1.10: Why The Next Food andFarm Bill Needs a Competition Title
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American farm policy and corporate mergers have created powerful agribusiness giants with dominant market shares-corporations that control virtually every of segment of the industrial food system. While monopolies and oligopolies have captured the bulk of the profits, small and midsized family farms have gotten squeezed out. Workers face exploitative conditions and consumers end up paying higher prices, with millions living in food deserts without access to fresh food.
In a continuation of FSNYC's Farm Bill series, Eric Weltman of Food and Water Watch explores one way that the next Farm Bill presents a critical opportunity to chip away at the power of agribusiness and to build fair and sustainable local food systems. |
 GrowNYC Report: Farmers on the Edge
In 2010, GrowNYC and the Open Space Institute began a year-long project to address the lack of affordable farmland in the region surrounding New York City. Read their findings in this assessment of Greenmarket farmers' needs and the growing challenges of keeping their farms viable! |
Going Undercover in the Belly of our Beastly Food Chain
Tracie McMillan's The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table takes us on a vivid and poignant tour of a place we don't really want to go: the mostly hidden, sometimes horrible world of the workers who form the backbone of our cheap, industrialized food chain. Sound grim? It is, at times, but McMillan's lively narrative and evident empathy for the people she encounters make her sojourn into the bowels of Big Food and Big Ag a pleasure to read.
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USDA Report: Direct and Intermediated Marketing Despite increased production and consumer interest, locally grown food accounts for a small segment of U.S. agriculture. The USDA recently released a report on the Marketing of Local Foods in America, examining the gross income of foods via direct and intermediated marketing. To increase local food production, marketing channels and supply chain infrastructure must deepen - the information gathered in the latest report could aid private- and public-sector efforts to support this segment of agricultural economy. |
Video: Aseel Alwaqz, Added Value Youth Leader
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Watch this inspiring video from Letitia Productions featuring Added Value Youth Leader Aseel Alwaqz.
This past summer, after working with Added Value for four seasons, Aseel said goodbye to Red Hook and jumped on a train headed for Long Island. In August, he matriculated in the joint Engineering Program at Adelphi College and Columbia University. As the first member of his family to attend college, Aseel is planning to become a doctor and work to improve health in the community.
Added Value's Executive Director Ian Marvey will be speaking at FSNYC's March Open Networking meeting.
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