New York City's food initiatives

Marion

May 1

I'm having a had time keeping up with all the things the New York City food policy office is doing to improve the city's food system, so I asked for, and got, an impressive list.

For starters, it has a plan: Food Forward NYC: A 10-Year Policy Plan

And its done a 2-Year Progress Report

The office published or supports the publishing of other city reports:

Food Standards Compliance Report on the nutritional quality of the 219 million meals served City agencies
NYC Food by the Numbers summarizing data on everything it's doing
Good Food Purchasing Dashboard with data on what the city buys
Prioritizing Food Education in Our Public Schools: A Path to Developing a Healthy Next Generation, a guide to building healthy school communities.
Cultivating Urban Agriculture, a planning document

It announces a new grant to the Department of Corrections to train prison foodservice workers to prepare plant-based meals

These are on top of initiatives to:

The Mayor's Office of Food Policy has a remarkably low profile. Trying to find out who's in it and what they are doing is not easy, which is why I wanted to try to get a handle on it.

I think Kate MacKenzie and her handful of colleagues are doing impresssive work, not least because of their outreach and partnership with multiple city agencies.

Impressive, indeed.