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The CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute has begun an exciting new partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy (MOFP) to develop a comprehensive interactive dashboard that will transform how New York City visualizes and shares data about its food system.
This collaborative 18-month project will create a user-friendly platform to make food system metrics more accessible and easier to use. Working with MOFP staff, the Institute will identify relevant metrics that reflect the most salient aspects of the NYC food system, from household food security and public benefit enrollment to school meals and environmental sustainability. The team will build an interactive dashboard that presents this information in an accessible format that is useful to different stakeholders, helping city agencies better understand food environments and track programs and policies, enabling service providers to identify areas of need, helping advocates build evidence for policy recommendations, and making it easy for researchers to track outcomes related to various food initiatives.
“This initiative will be a significant step forward in how the city reports on and visualizes its food-related data, ultimately supporting informed policy decisions and community-based solutions to food system challenges,” says Associate Professor Nevin Cohen, the project’s principal investigator.
