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About

Mapping Agricultural Production in New York City (M.A.P. NYC) is a project led by Stern’s Center for Sustainable Business that aims to help the city and its partners reach equity and sustainability goals by cataloging all food growers within the city and mapping their attributes on a web-based platform. We use geospatial techniques and data gathered from official sources to implement that goal and explore the relationships between urban agriculture locations, socioeconomic factors, and health outcomes.

 

Our platform provides administrative infrastructure for the city, crowdsources new data for future academic research, and creates a functional, user-driven interface between urban farmers, city agencies, and community members.

 

Additionally, our statistical analysis offers an innovative perspective of urban agriculture as social infrastructure. Specifically, we focus on spatial relationships between non-commercial agriculture and an approximate measure of subjective well-being across census tracts in New York City. This research provides insight into the broad-reaching impact of urban agriculture in the city, particularly on communities that have been disproportionately affected by economic and health crises.

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