For several decades, food insecurity and hunger have been conflated with physical food access, framing the problem as the insufficiency of conventional food retailers, a market failure needing policies like supermarket subsidies. Dr. Cohen will present several alternative approaches to measuring and analyzing the upstream determinants of food access and innovative business models aimed at reducing food insecurity, from a co-design project to make online grocery delivery accessible to public housing residents to a non-profit meal kit delivery service that aims to improve nutrition and family cohesion among time-stressed low-income households.
Bio
Nevin Cohen is Associate Professor at the CUNY) School of Public Health, and Research Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute. His research explores policies and systems to support socially just, healthy, resilient urban food systems. Current research includes a five-country analysis of urban agriculture, research on food access innovations; and a study of zoning, planning, and food gentrification. Dr. Cohen co-authored Beyond the Kale: Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City. He has a PhD in Urban Planning from Rutgers University, a Masters in City Planning from Berkeley, and a BA from Cornell.
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