Research question

What are the regional economic and environmental impacts and tradeoffs associated with New York City’s public food procurement policies?

How did we choose our focal food policy actions?

How did we choose our commodities?

Our goal was to select items that were purchased in substantial quantity by New York City that were also grown or raised by New York State farmers and that which were not already being puchased locally in substantial quantities.

New York City data (demand)

This section of the book should walk through the slides from our meetings/2023-09-NYC Kickoff/2023-09-TeamRetreatFullDeck.ppt, scale of purchasing that pertain to the focal food policy actions and commodities. Use the figures that justify why we chose the commodities we did.

Becca will add in the justification.

NYC baseline purchasing by food policy action. We have data on MWBE and NY state spend. Data should be in tables or figures, whatever is most intuitive. This is for all commodities together.

Detailed information is provided in the commodity by commodity section. ### Census of Agriculture (supply) This is where we put all of the data collected by Rebecca New York state ag data (Census of Ag, etc.). Only pull relevant data.