Urban Gardening and Regional Food in NYC
Apr 7th, 2009 by Jervey
Piling on that last post, Brooklyn writer Max Ajl has an awfully good article on SolveClimate about Scott Stringer’s “Food in the Public Interest: How New York City’s Food Policy Holds the Key to Hunger, Health, Jobs and the Environment” report:
The report, rich with detail and prescription, outlines preliminary steps toward a pretty good food policy for New York, braiding together some familiar strands: the environment, sustainable development, local food, and the importance of diet. Indeed, part of what makes the report so compelling as a model for examining urban food policy is its comprehensiveness, emphasizing that hunger is intertwined with the problems of food security and food justice. [SolveClimate]
Ajl very nicely summarizes all the various points of the report, something I’ve been hoping to find for awhile (so that I wouldn’t have to do it for y’all myself). So go read it.