Informatics for Community Food Resilience
1. Links
This Meeting notes document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lM1rqX7zQHEG8exM1O8c3cchZWPXwp7KpXDyfURXtlY/edit?usp=sharing
Website: https://resilientfood.org/
GOAT forum discussion: http://forum.goatech.org/t/informatics-for-community-food-resilience-in-times-of-pandemic-and-beyond/833
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2. Notes
This week we’ll be discussing Community Food Pathways.
Which communities can we map? Who are we already involved with? Consider mapping foodshed around these places:
Southeast:
- Athens, GA
Midwest:
- West Lafayette, IN
Pacific West:
- Davis, CA
Plains:
Northeast:
- New York City
What do our communities look like?
- Foodshed
- Bring together literature -- do you have any?
- Listing sources and sinks of food
- What is “local” for different types of food
- Cultural niches -- food values
- Mapping techniques
- Information ecologies
- Individuals: Farmer to consumer and everybody in between
- Tools and systems connecting the individuals
- Places and spaces people come together and food moves through
- Governing entities and policies
- Values
- What is our starting node for these communities?
- People in the project can connect us with a node, different for each community?
- How would we map? MIRO?
New York:
GrowNYC:
- Environmental Non profit
- Who are your consumers?
- Farmers market shoppers
- Service New Yorkers
- Supply line from upstate growers -> NY marketplace
- Green markets in 5 boroughs, concentrated in Manhattan, brooklyn and queens
- Staten island and the bronx only have a ew
- Large scale FM e.g., union square
- Market goers
- City home shoppers
- Tourist markets
- Rockerfeller
- Souvenirs grab and go
- Commuter markets
- Near transport hubs
- sMaller neighborhood markets
- Strategically placed in d
- Fresh food box program
- Preset food sourced from GrowNYC wholesale. Affordable boxes that can be picked up at different sites in the city
- Farm Stands
- Managed by growNYC or by…
- Local teenages & community organizations, ex-youth markets
- Consumer groups impacted by the pandemic
- Anyone who’s lost their job
- Because price points
- Communities at risk of COVID-19 who can’t go to sites
- Lack last-mile delivery logistics
- Customers of farm stands and green markets
- Some have alternatives, but this is a pinch point
- Victoria A.: grocery prices are going up
- D. Calderon: if not already, they will. E.g., animal protein
- Who are the people we should be talking to?
- Friends of friends :)
- How do we talk to people who can answer these questions?
- Beginning farmer program helping LatinX community
- Methods of communication?
- Preferred forms of comms, e.g., whatsapp vs newsletters
- Languages e.g., Spanish
- Live interpretation/captioning
- Market managers
- Food hub coordinators
- Community garden coordinators
- Sources of food?
- Cultural niches,
- Indian grocery stores
- Church pantries
- Gleaner communities
- Food banks
- I’m in need
- Mike Schmitt
- Rochester: community schools
- Resource rooms have available services e.g., translation, clothing, food.
- No questions asked resource provision
- NY schools are taking on different roles
- Restaurants
- Pivoting to selling direct groceries to consumers
- Where is this happening?
- Martinez, Lafayette, Virgina…
- What about restaurants that are sourcing from local farms?
- Geographic mapping and Network mapping,
- Erik’s Transportation map?
- What partners are working in different nodes?
- What distributors are they working with?
- Analogy:
- In WWII, armor on B52, putting more armo on where the bullets were vs werent
- Selection bias and survivor bias
- What type of problems are we trying to solve>
- We don’t know what’s missing because we don’t know what we don’t know
- Can we create a list of types of pain points? What causes this?
- Access to produce
- Intractable issues (?)
- Lack of knowledge or interest in food
- Personal taste
- Information bottlenecks & throughput challenges
- Information gaps
- Consumers don’t know where/how to connect to local farmers
- What problems are we overlooking?
- How deep do we want to go into a foodshed?
- Scope creep warning
- How are places like this affected by lockdown?
- 50 farmers markets
- 240 NE farmers
- Who are these farmers?
- 300 mile radius
- What types of communities are in this area?
- Centered around Poughkeepsie
- Erik: technical assistance advisor around markets
- What does this entail?
- Divisions
- Composting
- Recycling
- Community gardens
- education
- Consumers
- Who is in greatest need? Who isn’t being reached?
- What are their needs and challenges?
- Coordination and Distribution
- What coordination and distribution models are working?
- Which ones are overloaded?
- Which ones have crumbled?
- Where are new models are needed?
- What new models have already emerged?
Next: Establish the mapping process
- Spend a week broadly mapping a few communities:
Southeast:
- Athens, GA
Midwest:
- West Lafayette, IN
Pacific West:
- Davis, CA
Plains:
- Boulder, CO
Northeast:
- New York City
Interviews:
Chat Log:
from Ankita Raturi to Everyone: 3:04 PM
goatech.org
from Victoria A. to Everyone: 3:27 PM
I have heard that grocery prices are going up.
from D Calderon to Everyone: 3:31 PM
Well if they haven't going up yet, they will
from D Calderon to Everyone: 3:32 PM
Animal protein in particular
from D Calderon to Everyone: 3:56 PM
Yes!
from D Calderon to Everyone: 3:57 PM
What social media platforms are going to be the ones you are planning to use?
from Ankita Raturi to Everyone: 4:00 PM
We have materials that you can share on your platform of choice here: https://resilientfood.org/index.php/spread-the-word/
from Ankita Raturi to Everyone: 4:01 PM
we also have a twitter post and an instragram post available for sharing
from Ankita Raturi to Everyone: 4:01 PM
Let me know if you have a preferred mode of sharing!
from D Calderon to Everyone: 4:02 PM
Great, thanks