Greening the Food Supply in New York

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New York City’s food system, like those of most major cities, offers an abundance of high-quality, low-cost food from all around the world. Food to satisfy diverse tastes is available year round at markets and restaurants throughout the city’s five boroughs. Superficially, the system that feeds New Yorkers appears to work wonderfully. Yet, as is apparent to an increasing number of policy makers and advocates, the city’s food system is based on an inherently unsustainable and vulnerable foundation. It is rife with inefficiencies that increase costs, cause environmental problems, and inequitably distribute resources so that while many New Yorkers enjoy the best that food has to offer, millions of others lack easy access to healthy, fresh food. During the last several years, individuals have sought to forge policies and develop wide-ranging programs to address these problems, making New York City one of the nation’s leaders in sustainable urban food initiatives.KeywordsYork CityFood SystemHealthy FoodUrban AgricultureGreen RoofThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.