Webinar: Economic Impact Assessment of Public Incentives to Support Farm to School Food Purchases

In 2018, New York State announced the 30% NY Initiative that substantially increases school lunch reimbursements if school food authorities purchase at least 30% of their lunch ingredients as NY food products. With detailed food purchasing data from Buffalo Public Schools, the second-largest school district in the state, and the largest school food authority to qualify for enhanced reimbursement, they estimate the gross and net economic impacts of the policy through a customized input-output model.

Join the webinar to hear results from the study, which was led by Professor Todd Schmit, Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, and supported by Shayna Krasnoff, M.S., ’22, and Cheryl Bilinski, Cornell Cooperative Extension Harvest NY.