Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City

Cohen, Nevin; Ilieva, Rositsa T.

doi:10.1016/j.foodpol.2020.102012

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“…Restaurants, as businesses, are driven by the need for profit. This is especially important for ethnic restaurants trying to survive in a place like NYC, where they face increasing rent and ongoing displacement due to gentrification, as well as the economic fallout of the COVID-19 pandemic [ 44 – 46 ]. This makes the understanding of the connection between neighborhood factors and restaurant consumer environments particularly important.…”

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Area Characteristics and Consumer Nutrition Environments in Restaurants: an Examination of Hispanic Caribbean Restaurants in New York City

Fuster

Kodali

Ray

et al. 2021

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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Hispanics in the USA, particularly those of Caribbean descent, experience high levels of diet-related diseases and dietary risk factors. Restaurants are an increasingly important yet understudied source of food and may present opportunities to positively influence urban food environments. We sought to explore food environments further, by examining the association between neighborhood characteristics and restaurant consumer nutrition environments within New York City’s Hispanic Caribbean (HC) restaurant environments. We applied an adapted version of the Nutrition Environment Measurements Survey for Restaurants (NEMS-R) to evaluate a random sample of HC restaurants (n=89). NEMS-HCR scores (continuous and categorized as low, medium, and high based on data distribution) were examined against area sociodemographic characteristics using bivariate and logistic regression analysis. HC restaurants located in Hispanic geographic enclaves had a higher proportion of fried menu items (p<0.01) but presented fewer environmental barriers to healthy eating, compared with those in areas with lower Hispanic concentrations. No significant differences in NEMS-R scores were found by other neighborhood characteristics. Size was the only significant factor predicting high NEMS-HCR scores, where small restaurants were less likely to have scores in the high category (NEMS-HCR score > 6), compared with their medium (aOR: 6.6, 95% CI: 1.8–24.6) and large counterparts (aOR: 5.6, 95% CI: 1.5–21.4). This research is the first to examine the association between restaurant location and consumer nutrition environments, providing information to contribute to future interventions and policies seeking to improve urban food environments in communities disproportionately affected by diet-related conditions, as in the case of HC communities in New York City.

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Area Characteristics and Consumer Nutrition Environments in Restaurants: an Examination of Hispanic Caribbean Restaurants in New York City

Fuster

Kodali

Ray

et al. 2021

J. Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

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“…Broader policies not explicitly labeled as food policies but that influence the city's food sector, such as moratoriums on evictions for small businesses affected by the pandemic, were included and considered part of the city and state's pandemic response. However, upstream food policies (e.g., Cohen and Ilieva, 2021 ), such as those related to immigration, housing, transportation, or education policies that may affect food security or other aspects of the food system, were not included in our analysis.…”

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From multiple streams to a torrent: A case study of food policymaking and innovations in New York during the COVID-19 emergency

Ilieva

Fraser

Cohen

2023

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“…A further key development over the past two decades, in response to growing acceptance of the social determinants of health (Friel and Marmot, 2011), has been the expansion of the boundaries of food systems governance beyond policies that narrowly address issues of food access and health. Drawing on the example of New York City, Cohen and Ilieva (2021) evidence how the remit of food systems governance has broadened to include issues such as labour, housing and poverty, amongst many others. In other words, food system governance has expanded (in some contexts) to address structural drivers of inequality within and beyond food systems.…”

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“…Food systems, then, represent multi-scalar and cross-cutting set of issues, which bring together a raft of critical policy objectives in relation to health, equity, sustainability, resilience and inclusive economic growth, amongst many others (Leeuwis et al, 2021). These approaches have led to broader understandings of food systems, and food systems governance, to incorporate issues such as education, labour and housing (Cohen and Ilieva, 2021).…”

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New geographical directions for food systems governance research

Yap

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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Food systems governance has emerged as a distinct focus of geographical research. Researchers and policymakers are increasingly engaging with food systems as complex, multi-scalar and cross-cutting sets of issues. This article examines the potential of critical, interdisciplinary readings of the relationships between the state, space and territory to explore new directions and opportunities for food systems governance research and practice. In doing so, the article proposes a critical research agenda that emphasises the interdependent spatial and relational character of food systems governance.

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Expanding the boundaries of food policy: The turn to equity in New York City

Cited by 29 publications

References 69 publications

Area Characteristics and Consumer Nutrition Environments in Restaurants: an Examination of Hispanic Caribbean Restaurants in New York City

Area Characteristics and Consumer Nutrition Environments in Restaurants: an Examination of Hispanic Caribbean Restaurants in New York City

From multiple streams to a torrent: A case study of food policymaking and innovations in New York during the COVID-19 emergency

New geographical directions for food systems governance research

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