{"id":9387,"date":"2024-04-30T15:29:46","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T15:29:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/?p=9387"},"modified":"2024-05-08T18:42:26","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T18:42:26","slug":"nourishing-people-and-policy-revisiting-fresh-food-access-in-nycs-fresh-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/2024\/nourishing-people-and-policy-revisiting-fresh-food-access-in-nycs-fresh-program","title":{"rendered":"Nourishing People and Policy: Revisiting Fresh Food Access in NYC&#8217;s FRESH Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This thesis project examines the role of NYC\u2019s grocery store infrastructure and alternative food retail in promoting fresh food consumption within vulnerable communities. My work looks into the conceptualization of &#8220;food deserts&#8221; and how they dismiss discriminatory planning practices that displaced residents and their retail while restricting new food retail development. Food Apartheid is a more accurate term to describe this occurrence.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Supermarket incentive programs were one of the main strategies adopted to address \u201cfood deserts\u201d. In 2009, the NYC Department of City Planning created the FRESH program to incentivize full-scale supermarkets in high-need areas through public-private partnerships. These areas were determined through a 2008 study identifying low supermarket access and high rates of diet-related illnesses. The program is still active and has built 36 stores; however, it is unclear if it reduces diet-related illness through increased fresh food consumption for vulnerable households. Though additional supermarkets can increase awareness of fresh food, there are several other socio-economic barriers, as a result of Food Apartheid, that need to be addressed in order to also promote consumption in these neighborhoods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My project evaluates the current success of the FRESH program and offers recommendations to adapt the program from a \u201cfood desert\u201d approach to one that acknowledges Food Apartheid in these high-need areas to promote fresh food consumption. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>How can the FRESH program, a city initiative to incentivize supermarkets, address the presence of food apartheid in NYC in order to improve fresh produce consumption for food-insecure households within FRESH zones?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"757\" src=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SP24_abementposter_INFOSHOW-1024x757.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9556\" srcset=\"https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SP24_abementposter_INFOSHOW-1024x757.png 1024w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SP24_abementposter_INFOSHOW-300x222.png 300w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SP24_abementposter_INFOSHOW-768x568.png 768w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SP24_abementposter_INFOSHOW-1536x1135.png 1536w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SP24_abementposter_INFOSHOW-2048x1514.png 2048w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SP24_abementposter_INFOSHOW-973x719.png 973w, https:\/\/studentwork.prattsi.org\/infoshow\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/SP24_abementposter_INFOSHOW-508x375.png 508w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This thesis project examines the role of NYC\u2019s grocery store infrastructure and alternative food retail in promoting fresh food consumption within vulnerable communities. 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