Micaela Lipman was the presenting author for the paper titled “Fools, Assets, Criminals, and Leaders: How do comprehensive plans conceptualize youth.”
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Leveraging Agriculture and Food Systems for Human Health: Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Research and Training
The keynote is part of a 6-day grant writing workshop organized in association with the Division of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Horticulture, and K-Lab. More details about the keynote are below:
Title: Leveraging Agriculture and Food Systems for Human Health: Opportunities for Transdisciplinary Research and TeachingVenue: Virtual Classroom, Old Horticulture building, Shalimar
School Health and Wellness Collaborative 10/26/23
Invitation to the School Health and Wellness Collaborative of Buffalo this Thursday evening, 10/26, rom 5-7 p.m. at D’Youville University Health Hub (301 Connecticut). You can register here – www.bit.ly/schoolhealth_oct23 or via the QR code on the flyer. All are welcome, including and encouraging children and youth. Come check out…
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- Salad bar + new surprise food item from the Buffalo Public Schools “Farm to School” menu
- Recycling/composting demonstration and resources by Good Food Buffalo Coalition
- Circles and community-building by Erie County Restorative Justice Coalition
- Info on School Wellness Teams and how to start/join/partner with one by International School #45
- Staying healthy this school year by BPS Co-Medical Director and pediatrician Dr. Sarah Ventre
- Interactive discussion on topics led by and for parents and students including school food, mental health, transportation, and more!
Details of the event:
Thursday, October 26th, from 5-7 pm
D’Youville University Health Hub
Critical Food Policy Literacy by Carol E. Ramos-Gerena
Food policies should be informed by those who they intend to serve, but policy-making processes remain exclusive to privileged voices, knowledge, and experiences.
Kashmir’s Women Scientists
Historically, the women in Kashmir have remained empowered enough to be part of every sphere of life. Though they have traditionally picked a set of jobs as their careers in education, governance, business and medical science to suit their homemaking role, some of them have opted for challenging careers. Humaira Nabi talks to a number of Kashmir women scientists detailing their journeys in the challenging field and their core research focus
By Kashmir Life – 8:53 pm February 11, 2023
“A Darker Wilderness” , a Book Talk by Erin Sharkey
UB alumna leads Buffalo Freedom Gardens
UB alumna leads Buffalo Freedom Gardens.
By CHARLOTTE HSU Published July 13, 2022
Summer is here, and with the arrival of the growing season, an initiative called Buffalo Freedom Gardens has given dozens of residents of Buffalo’s East Side neighborhoods a free raised bed garden.
On a Saturday in June, volunteers including UB Food Lab members joined Freedom Gardens founder Gail V. Wells to make the last of this year’s deliveries.
The team packed cedar wood planters, each expected to last at least a decade, into a U-Haul truck, along with bags of soil. Freedom Gardens recipients also get seeds and vegetable seedlings, garden gloves, a bright green watering can, and instructions on caring for the plants.
Each garden is a thing of joy — and an act of liberation, says Wells, a UB alumna who remains connected to the university community.
She points out that food has long been central to movements for freedom: “For Black people who are descendants of kidnapped and enslaved Africans, the way we could secure our safety and our families and build an economy for ourselves was first based on us being able to feed ourselves,” she says.
The Idea That A (urban) Planner Is A Genius With Grand Ideas Is Bogus
Dr Samina Raja plans cities, towns, and regions to promote health and food equity. An award-winning professor and founder of a globally recognized Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities laboratory, operating from the University of Buffalo, she and her team conduct research on how to develop equitable, sustainable, and healthy cities. Her research has been used to advise local and national governments within and outside the US, and international organizations like the UN’s FAO. In a freewheeling interview with Masood Hussain, she offers her ideas about Kashmir of her imagination.
Andrew Galarneau: Grassroots efforts help water seeds of food security on East Side
Andrew Galarneau: Grassroots efforts help water seeds of food security on East Side
June 5, 2022 | Buffalo News, The: Web Edition Articles (NY)
Samina Raja, an internationally known University at Buffalo expert on building sustainable food systems and healthy communities, has spent more than 20 years studying how to help feed people living in neighborhoods without groceries, concentrating on Buffalo’s East Side.
The solution, in her estimation, is a classic case of something being simple, but not easy.
“The city’s Black neighborhoods need sustained structural investments, not fly-in, fly-out charity,” she and other UB Food Lab researchers said in an op-ed published at CivilEats.com.
“We are unlikely to remedy food inequities” without a greater understanding of what causes poor food environments, says Samina Raja, associate dean for research and inclusive excellence, and principal investigator of the Food Systems Planning and Healthy Communities Lab at the University at Buffalo.
What do people need to know before they can transform municipal food policies?
New research by UB Food Lab member Carol E Ramos-Gerena in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2023.122.008
INTRODUCTION
Food policies should be informed by those who they intend to serve, but policy-making processes remain exclusive to privileged voices, knowledge, and experiences. This article bridges food and policy scholarship with the critical literacy work of Paulo Freire to answer: how do we understand literacies tied to food policy? What does (or, what could) it mean to be food policy literate? In a new JAFSCD article, Carol E. Ramos-Gerena proposes five principles for conceptualizing critical food policy literacy that support food system transformations.
KEY FINDINGS
The paper suggests that efforts to promote critical food policy literacy must facilitate communities to (a) “read the world,” (b) “read the word,” (c) be critically aware of food policy processes and systems, (d) learn contextually and through authentic practice, and (e) enable people to negotiate and transform the world (their context) collectively.
RECOMMENDATIONS FOR POLICY, PRACTICE, AND RESEARCH
Possessing knowledge on engaging with food policy processes is not commensurate with actual engagement. Thus, structural barriers to community participation must also be addressed. Food system planners and educators, particularly at the municipal level, should support locally-based citizen food organizations to engage in food policy. This support must go beyond assessing communities’ food policy literacy. Instead, it must intend to bridge the gap to ensure critical readiness for food policy engagement.
For questions and suggestions, contact us at foodsystems@ap.buffalo.edu.