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October 23, 2018
Members of the EFSNE team prepared a report for the USDA, entitled "A comprehensive review of the regional, inter-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary, food security, and systems facets of the EFSNE Project." It is available as a PDF here.
September 16, 2018
After seven years of analyzing a number of consumption, distribution, production, and other aspects of the Northeast US food system, EFSNE researchers have made significant gains in understanding the extent to which the region can increase production of certain foods, and potentially better meet the food needs of low-income populations in the locations they studied. Findings and outputs from the project, which concluded earlier this year, will be useful to food system planners, policy makers, researchers and advocates interested in advancing regional food systems.
September 13, 2018
Members of the EFSNE Production Team carried out seven analyses during the course of the project, focusing on the region’s current and potential production capacity.
July 13, 2018
In a forthcoming paper, we use three different datasets to characterize differences in purchasing patterns across income levels and rural-urban status of food shoppers in the Northeastern US.
July 6, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Emily Piltch, who received her doctoral degree from Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy in 2018. While studying at Tufts, she also was a student member of the EFSNE Production Team for four years, working with Drs. Tim Griffin and Christian Peters.
July 6, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Graham Jeffries, who received his doctoral degree in Agriculture, Food and Environment from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University earlier this year. While pursuing his master’s degree at Tufts, Jeffries was a student member of the EFSNE project, working with Tim Griffin who co-leads the Production Team.
July 6, 2018
Congratulations to Dr. Ryan Lee, who received his doctoral degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2017. While conducting his dissertation research, he also was a student member of the EFSNE Consumption Team.
May 7, 2018
Outreach team members have produced several research briefs that serve to distill peer-reviewed journal articles authored by EFSNE team members into 2-4 page documents intended for a general audience. The briefs describe the issue(s) addressed by a particular research paper, outline the study’s objectives, methods, and findings, and discuss the implications and applications of the findings. Ten titles are currently available, and team members plan to release additional briefs in the coming months. If you'd like to be notified when new briefs are posted, email Kristen Devlin (krd111@psu.edu) to be added to the mailing list.
May 7, 2018
In 2015 and 2016, several Consumption Team members hosted events that shared some of the results of the EFSNE project to engage community members on food and agriculture issues in their particular locations. The events, funded by a separate NIFA conference grant, were as diverse as the communities themselves. In some cases they resulted in new on-the-ground efforts to promote food access. These activities sought to stimulate thinking around taking regional level data on food and agricultural sectors and applying it to the local context. Here's what took place in Baltimore, MD, Dover, DE, and Charleston, WV.
February 12, 2018
For seven years a multidisciplinary team of more than 40 researchers has explored the extent to which a more robust regional food system in the Northeastern U.S. could improve food access in low-income communities and improve the long-term food security of the entire Northeast. Now, in an initial collection of three papers published in the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, team members have summarized some of their findings.
January 30, 2018
EFSNE researchers at Cornell University have analyzed where Northeast supermarkets source the foods they sell to their low-income customers. These case studies offer policymakers a better understanding of how regional food systems could bring healthier food to low-income people in the Northeast, and are the first of their kind to be conducted in the region.
May 2, 2016
Coverage of an EFSNE community-based event that took place in Dover, DE on April 5, 2016.
July 19, 2014
The project and its Pittsburgh-based activities are described in this story in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
July 7, 2014
The cover story of the July 2014 issue of CSA News is a six-page feature story about the EFSNE project.
May 5, 2014
The Geospatial Agricultural Management and Crop Assessment Framework (GAMCAF) developed by members of the Production Team is featured on the website of the American Society of Agronomy.
