Food Studies Program at the New School

It's in a few days! Join us this Monday October 26th at 4pm for a presentation and discussion with Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Associate Professor of Food Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Minkoff-Zern will discuss her new book The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (2019, MIT Press).

In The New American Farmer, Minkoff-Zern explores the experiences of Latino/a immigrant farmers as they transition from farmworkers to farm owners, offering a new perspective on racial inequity and sustainable farming. She finds that many of these new farmers rely on farming practices from their home countries—including growing multiple crops simultaneously, using integrated pest management, maintaining small-scale production, and employing family labor—most of which are considered alternative farming techniques in the United States.

Drawing on extensive interviews with farmers and organizers, Minkoff-Zern describes the social, economic, and political barriers immigrant farmers must overcome, from navigating USDA bureaucracy to racialized exclusion from opportunities. She discusses, among other topics, the history of discrimination against farm laborers in the United States; the invisibility of Latino/a farmers to government and universities; new farmers' sense of agrarian and racial identity; and the future of the agrarian class system.
Minkoff-Zern argues that immigrant farmers, with their knowledge and experience of alternative farming practices, are—despite a range of challenges—actively and substantially contributing to the movement for an ecological and sustainable food system. Scholars and food activists should take notice.

The event will open with a brief introduction by Food Studies and Environmental Studies faculty member Dr. Kristin Reynolds, followed by the presentation and discussion.

The event is sponsored by the Food Studies program, the Environmental Studies Program, and the Tishman Environment and Design Center at the New School.

Free and open to the public - registration required to receive Zoom link.

ONLINE | Book Talk: The New American Farmer Join us on Monday October 26th at 4 p.m. for a presentation and discussion with Dr. Laura-Anne Minkoff-Zern, Assistant Professor of Food Studies at Syracuse University. Dr. Minkoff-Zern will discuss her new book The New American Farmer: Immigration, Race, and the Struggle for Sustainability (2019,...

Join us on the 7th of October for a talk with Dr. Joe Nasr on Urban Agriculture.

Urban agriculture involves many actors, consists of many growing techniques producing a great variety of products, taking place in all kinds of places, using many organizational arrangements, serving multiple functions. How does one make sense of this overwhelming array, how can it be classified into understandable types, how do these typologies of urban agriculture intersect typologies of urban form? Dr. Joe Nasr will explore these questions, using a quarter century of involvement in the urban agriculture movement globally. He will draw on his personal experiences, from his early writing on the subject in the early 1990s to his co-leading the Carrot City initiative for the past decade.

Joe Nasr is an independent scholar, lecturer and consultant based in Toronto who has been exploring urban agriculture and food security issues for over a quarter century. He holds a 1997 doctorate in urban and regional planning from the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on postwar response and reconstruction in Europe. As associate of the Ryerson Centre for Studies in Food Security, he co-curated the traveling exhibit, book and website Carrot City: Designing for Urban Agriculture (www.carrotcity.org), co-organized the growTO speakers’ series, helped initiate Ryerson Urban Farm, and coordinated the programming for the 2012 Urban Agriculture Summit in Toronto. Joe is co-founder of Toronto Urban Growers (www.torontourbangrowers.org) and member of the Toronto Food Policy Council (www.tfpc.to). He is co-author or co-editor of four books and dozens of articles, including the seminal book Urban Agriculture (www.jacsmit.com/book.html); he is also co-editor of an Urban Agriculture Book Series (www.springer.com/series/11815). Joe teaches regularly at Ryerson’s Chang School courses on urban agriculture and food security; he has taught at a number of universities and held several fellowships in multiple countries over the years.

For registration, visit the event page:

https://event.newschool.edu/categorizingurbanagriculture

ONLINE | Categorizing Urban Agriculture and Urban Form Urban agriculture involves many actors, consists of many growing techniques producing a great variety of products, taking place in all kinds of places, using many organizational arrangements, serving multiple functions. How does one make sense of this overwhelming array, how can it be classified int...

Eating NAFTA: Food Justice, Policy, and the Cuisine of Mexico
Thursday, September 17, 2020
8:00 PM 9:00 PM
Online

Join previous Food Studies faculty, Dr. Alyshia Galvez, for a conversation that explains the connections between NAFTA and the decline in traditional Mexican cuisines; the industrialized and processed foods that flooded in to replace them; and the resulting effects on the health of the Mexican population at large.

Alyshia will be joined by Irwin Sanchez, founder of Tlaxcal Kitchen; Dr. Miriam Bertran, coordinator of the food and culture program at Metropolitan University in Xochimilco, Mexico; Teresa Mares, author of Life on the Other Border: Farmworkers and Food Justice in Vermont; and Paloma Martinez-Cruz, associate professor of Latinx Cultural Studies at The Ohio State University, and author of Food Fight! Millennial Mestizaje Meets the Culinary Marketplace.

This conversation will focus not only on how policy has affected the foodways of Mexico, but also how the pandemic has engendered new conversations about who is an “essential” worker and how Covid-19 has impacted food supply and food access south of the border.

Eating NAFTA: Food Justice, Policy, and the Cuisine of Mexico — Museum of Food and Drink (MOFAD) While NAFTA has provided Americans with nearly unlimited access to ingredients like avocados grown south of the border, the rise in accessibility coincides with a growing scarcity of the very same foods for people in Mexico. Meet Alyshia Gálvez, author of Eating Nafta for a conversation that expl

Are you vegan? Vegetarian? Keto? Gluten Free? Kosher? Halal? Or do you follow decolonized diets?


A faculty-student research team from The New School would like to understand your reasons for following a specialized dietary regimen.

You must be at least 18 years of age to be in this study. If you choose to participate, you will first be asked to answer questions regarding your dietary choices and routines. Your participation in this questionnaire will take about 10 minutes.

If you are eligible to take the second part of our study, you will be given the opportunity to schedule a more thorough interview about this topic after you complete the questionnaire (which will last about one hour). For your participation in the interview, you will receive a $10 Amazon gift card. In light of the COVID-19 situation, interviews will be conducted through video chat and voice call.

If you wish to participate, please click the link below to connect to the survey:

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Food Studies was present at The Food Bank of New York City's legislative breakfast this morning, where the food bank presented key findings from their recent report and awards to those contributing to improved food policy.

You can find the November 2019 report here:

HUNGER REPORT: Seniors, Immigrants, Families with Children Turning to Emergency Food Network Amid Federal Threats - Food Bank For New York City New York, NY — Food Bank For New York City today released a new report on the state of hunger in NYC that shows seniors, immigrants and families with children are turning to the emergency food network amid threats to Federal poverty programs. A large majority of food pantries and soup kitchens als...