Carolyn Dimitri is a professor of food studies in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University. She holds a PhD in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.
Part of her work at NYU, in addition to working with a fabulous group of students, is conducting economic analysis of food markets. Most of her work to date has examined organic food, specifically the distribution, marketing, retailing, and consumption of organic food. More recently, she has become interested in access to food, urban agriculture and regional food systems.
This photo (and the one on the front page) is taken from a recent trip to Glacier National Park, after attending the food studies conference in Missoula.
At St. Mary's Falls in Glacier National Park
Thanks for starting this blog. Hoping to follow your effort and see how it develops. I am especially interested in following the Farm Bill progress and how we who are interested in sustainable food economic might influence that bill.
Dear Carolyn,
I agree totally with you and happy to see somebody talk about sustainable agriculture and food system from the economics point of view. It is the focus. Everything starts with economics and need to be used to create sustainable agriculture. It is possible to have clean, adequate, and safe food without jeopardizing the environment and the future generation share of it. If we look at the food waste alone, we can get a lot of ideas on how to meet and create the sustainable safe food system.
I would follow you closely as I have experience and high interest in the field.
Best,
Majd
Excellent idea. I am looking forward to being educated by a respected economist.
This looks like an interesting blog. I am particularly interested in fisheries, acquaculture, and sustainable food economics, particularly in relation to NYC. I would like to be in contact with others in NYC area with similar interests. Perhaps you have suggestions.
Professor,
Glad to see your blog on sustainable food economics. I am interested to know more about it and would like follow you. I used to work in an organic food store, I know people that work at whole foods. I want to know how they do their organic food business. Thanks and looking forward to take your higher economics class.
Mo
Great to see you doing this Carolyn. So sorry I missed you in Pittsburgh. Looking forward to following your blog.
Cheryl
Hi Carolyn,
Can you suggest some books or readings on the economics of food/alternative economic models for sustainable communities that would help the econ novice get a handle on these issues? I just finished Bill Mckibben’s Deep Economy, and would love to keep learning more.
P.S. I am writing from Kalispell, Montana, about 1.5 hours from where your website photo was taken. Glad you made it to Big Sky country
Thanks for starting this blog!
Kristina Johnson
Big sky country is beautiful!
I will email you the reading list from my food systems course; there is a dearth of economics books on this topic though. My colleague at Clark University – Jackie Geoghegan – and I are writing a text book to try to fill in this void.
CD
Carolyn, thanks for your blog. I love to be able to get your ideas first hand!
Alberto
That would be great, Carolyn! Thank you!
I’m so pleased to have discovered your blog, and appreciate yesterday’s post focused on access to healthy food. I look forward to reading more and an exchange of ideas focused on food and sustainability. Are you planning to attend the Community Food Security Coalition’s 15th annual conference? http://communityfoodconference.org/15/
I am not planning to attend this year – I am attending the public health conference the week before, and I can’t leave my classes for two consecutive weeks.
I continue to enjoy and get a lot out of your blog. I sent along your recent writing(Oct 9) to Mark Winne.
Thank you so much! I appreciate the words and the passing along of the writing. Best, Carolyn
Great work Carolyn,
I hope that you can make it out to the Bay Area to visit Full Circle Farm, located in Sunnyvale and right in the heart of Silicon Valley. Our “farmworkers” often consist of employees from Silicon Valley’s largest corporations, and we have built an 11-acre community based farm from scratch in the last 4 years. We are conducting our own urban agriculture research, have several gardens onsite, a 300 tree orchard, farm stand, greenhouse, packing shed, etc….all built by volunteers. My background in urban ag goes back thirty years to when I organized the first farmers’ markets in Los Angeles, and the first regional urban agriculture project there in the late 70s. Visit http://www.fullcirclesunnyvale.org for more info. -Wolfram Alderson, Executive Director, Full Circle Farm
Hello Carolyn,
I am glad I found your blog, because it´s answering a top question of mine: is there anybody out there talking about Sustainable Food Production, seriously? The answer is yes! I am from Argentina and I am after a concept such as the one I´ll show you here,
http://gothamgreens.com/our-farm/
I wonder , do you think this is a viable future model for healthy, sustainable food production? The way I see it, cities are becoming mega-cities. And mega-cities requiere megasolutions. The cost of food in my country is growing and growing by the day! Most of the cost comes from logistics costs. So I think part of the solution will come from WITHIN the city, and not entirely from the OUTSIDE. I think farms will become more urban farms than the farms we used to know…worldwide! What do you think of the gotham greens concept?
Hope to hear from you soon!
thank you so much! bye!