Just Food
Goal of the organization to promote "Justice from the ground up."
What is mission statement?
Other names for this include: Barley Malt, Corn Sweetener, Dextrose, & Xylitol and can be found with such names on the ingredient list
It represents a significant cost to local governments and taxpayers, pushing municipalities to adopt composting programs and collection of it.
What is food waste?
A summary of the NYC Food Policy's progress towards building a resilient and equitable food system with an overview of the production, processing, distribution and consumption of food provided by city agencies to the community.
What is NYC Food Metric Report?
Lack of fairness and sufficient access in communities as well as experience limitations according to resources and knowledge on a variety of healthy foods in their area
What is Food Inequity?
Executive director of Just Food who has redefined the organization's goal to focus on advocacy for equitable food/farm policies and cultivation of community leadership.
Who is Qianna Mickie?
One of the six nutrient groups that is thought to be only from meat sources, but is also found from plant sources.
What is protein?
A growing problem and increasing human rights issue; a 5% less wastage of food would be enough to feed 4 million Americans.
What is hunger?
A SNAP incentive of $2 coupons redeemable for fresh fruits and vegetables year round. New Yorkers with low income gain additional purchasing power to buy locally-grown produce at all 141 farmers’ markets across NYC.
What are Health Bucks?
Rejection of the industrial approach to food production (aka factory farms), integrating three main things: environmental health, economic profitability, and social/economic equity.
What is sustainable agriculture?
Varied group of members who fundraise, provide organizational guidance, and help the company stay on track and meet goals for continued success.
Who is the Board of Directors?
A USDA initiative providing a template for healthy eating patterns and food group proportions with less saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars.
What is Choose My Plate?
Defined by the USDA as the lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy life; food intake is reduced because households lack money and resources after paying for rent, utilities, bills etc.
What is food insecurity?
A priority of NYC to invest these yearly into the City's own emergency food program, continuing support for the provision of food and funding to providers.
What are City Levied Tax (CLT) Dollars?
By investing in them and helping them grow food more sustainably, cities can reduce the number of people living in poverty and increase the potential of supporting food security over the long run.
Who are small-scale farmers?
Youth-driven training program created to bridge the experience gap within the social justice movement of young adult New Yorkers, 17-21, providing mentorship, skill building workshops, networking and leadership opportunities.
What is Youth Empowerment Pipeline?
Americans are recommended a daily intake of 25-38 g/day but are getting closer to 10-14 g/day
What is dietary fiber?
When a child is hungry, their body & brain is starved of nutrients; these kids fall behind in school and undergo negative physiological changes such as reduced organ function and immunity & reduced bone growth.
What is malnourishment?
Targeted outreach campaigns by the Department of Social Service to organizations serving specific populations, including senior citizens, LGBTQI, persons with disabilities and immigrant communities, to expand benefits access to SNAP.
What is ACCESS Human Resource Administration (HRA)
The root cause of food insecurity which NYC attempts to combat by increasing earning potential and reducing the cost of living.
What is Poverty?
With the theme of Persist/Resist, an event exploring what it means to strive for equity, persevere through inevitable crisis, & spark change through the collective power of resistance in the realm of food justice.
What is Just Food Conference 2018?
These have been milled in a process that removes the bran and germ to create a finer texture and improve shelf life, but it also removes dietary fiber, iron, and many B vitamins.
What are refined grains?
This affects the price of food production and food prices through changes in average temperature, rainfall patterns, increased droughts, and monsoons.
What is climate change?
initiative for City agencies that procure and serve food to improve the institutional plate through the values set forth including: nutrition, environmental sustainability, valued workforce, animal welfare, and local economies.
What is NYC Good Food Purchasing Program (GFPP)?
A United Nation's branch helping to prevent losses through investments in technology, training on post-harvest crop management, and preventing post-harvest losses to increase the availability of vital, life-sustaining nutrients where they are needed most.
What is the World Food Program (WFP)?