[tcrp-news] Fwd: [BuyLocalNY] Mapping the NYC Regional Food System
Tompkins County Relocalization Project
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Dear Friends--I thought this might of
interest. From the BuyLocalNY list. Tom
>From: Goodsell <deerfarm6 at frontiernet.net>
>To: RCFP <RCFP at yahoogroups.com>, BuyLocalNY <BuyLocalNY at yahoogroups.com>,
> "NYFoodshed at yahoogroups.com" <NYFoodshed at yahoogroups.com>,
> "foodpolicyannounce at yahoogroups.com"
> <foodpolicyannounce at yahoogroups.com>,
>Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2011 09:41:13 -0500
>Subject: [BuyLocalNY] Mapping the NYC Regional Food System
>
>
>The following was included in the Food Systems
>Network NYC January newsletter. Thought some of
>you might find it interesting. -- Martha
>
><http://www.foodsystemsnyc.org/articles/udl-nyc-foodshed-initiative>http://www.foodsystemsnyc.org/articles/udl-nyc-foodshed-initiative
>
>
>
>Mapping the NYC Regional Food System
>
>
>
>by Viktoriya Syrov, Food Systems Network NYC
>January 5, 2011
>
>When Michael Conard, Assistant Director of the
><http://www.urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/>Urban
>Design Lab at Columbia Universitys Earth
>Institute, was first asked to consider the
>rising problem of childhood obesity in 2007, his
>team of urban designers and architects realized
>that what was being called for was a wholly new
>approach. Working with the
><http://collaborativeinitiatives.org/>MIT
>Collaborative Initiatives, the team embarked on
>a journey across the United States, funded by a
>grant from the United Health Foundation, to
>learn more about the disease and find a viable new solution.
>
>What they came up with would not surprise many
>of us; the problem lay on the intake side of the
>energy equation, and much of it had to do with
>lack of access to healthy food. Through
>examinations of rural food deserts around the
>country, it was determined that in order to
>address the issue of access it would be
>necessary to develop an integrated regional food
>system. The second phase of the project refined
>the concept of a comprehensive food system and
>encouraged collaboration between industry
>leaders to come up with models for a new national food infrastructure.
>
>A more resilient, a more sustainable, and
>healthy system is an integrated regional
>system, said Conard. By building on the good
>efforts happening locally and regionally and
>further giving infrastructure to support them,
>by giving data and supporting funding, we can
>create a network of regional systems which will
>provide outcomes and further economic development.
>
>To start, Conard and his team began by taking
>the model for an integrated food system and
>applying it locally.
><http://www.urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/?pid=nyc_foodshed>The
>New York City Regional Foodshed Initiative was
>announced in 2010, and is comprised of a
>two-year study that will evaluate the potential
>capacity of agricultural production and
>distribution infrastructure in the New York City
>region. Working in partnership with the
><http://www.stonebarnscenter.org/>Stone Barns
>Center for Food and Agriculture, Conard and
>Project Manager Kubi Ackerman will utilize
>consumption data from sources such as the USDA
>and Department of Transportation, along with
>GIS, to analyze and quantify the existing food
>production in the 200-mile radius of the New
>York Metro Region, and measure the potential
>production capacity of the region.
>
><http://www.foodsystemsnyc.org/files/map_nyc_foodshed_tabloid.jpg>
>[]
>
>The goal is to conduct an in-depth examination
>of the food production and distribution capacity
>of the New York City Metropolitan Region and to
>develop specific policy recommendations for
>enhancing the ability of the City to supply more
>food from regional sources. The study will
>incorporate localized land use, soil type,
>transportation infrastructure, and climatic
>conditions to assess regional production
>capacity, and will incorporate actual
>consumption data for New York City.
>Additionally, the study will allow for
>comparison of existing regional production and
>distribution with potential regional production
>and distribution to identify concrete
>possibilities for enhancing regional capacity, said Ackerman in an e-mail.
>
>Conard, who sees the model to be potentially
>applicable worldwide said, The goal is to
>understand what each region is and what the
>opportunities are
and on a national level how
>to support those differences and those similarities.
>
>Thus far the Urban Design Lab team has advised
>two major city policy reports using their
>findings: The 2009 Manhattan Borough President
>Scott M. Stringers Food in the Public
>Interest report and the 2010
><http://www.foodsystemsnyc.org/announcements/foodworks-report>FoodWorks:
>A Vision to Improve NYCs Food System, prepared
>by City Council Speaker Christine Quinn. UDL
>recently presented a report on the NYC Foodshed
>Initiative at the Northeast Sustainable
>Agriculture Working Group (NESAWG) Conference,
>and you can
><http://www.urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/pres_NESAWG_text_122210.pdf>view
>their presentation
><http://www.urbandesignlab.columbia.edu/sitefiles/file/pres_NESAWG_text_122210.pdf>here.
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