Description

New York City’s large and diverse urban agriculture system is considered one of the most innovative and vibrant in the world. The system emerged without a comprehensive strategy, yet critical issues like land tenure, infrastructure, financial and technical resources, and the role of new growing technologies, suggest that an urban agriculture plan may be needed to support and grow this vital urban infrastructure. As the City Council considers requiring a comprehensive urban agriculture plan, this forum will explore what such a plan should include and how the city should go about crafting it. On Thursday June 27, join the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and invited experts to explore these and other timely questions.

Speakers:

• Raymond Figueroa, Jr., Taconic Faculty Fellow at the Pratt Center for Community Development and Visiting Faculty in Sustainable Environmental Systems, Pratt Institute
• Aziz Dekhan, Executive Director of NYC Community Garden Coalition
• Onika Abraham, Director of Farm School NYC
• Ricky Stephens, Co-Founder at AgTech X

Moderator:

• Nevin Cohen, Research Director, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute and Associate Professor, CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy

Doors open at 8:45am. Panel begins promptly at 9am. Please allow additional time to check in at security desks.

THIS PANEL WILL BE LIVESTREAMED. Tune into the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy Facebook page to watch. The permalink will be posted on our website after the event.

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Learn more about the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute: cunyurbanfoodpolicy.org

Learn more about the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy: sph.cuny.edu