Food Systems - Solutions to Ending Global Hunger
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“Every act of eating involves some element of choice.” Every day people around the world go to the store to purchase food and then sit down to a meal with their families. The meal may include bread made with wheat from Peru, salad with lettuce from California, and beef from Australia. All of these products end up on our plates through a vast interconnected global supply chain. While the supply chain creates a large number of food choices in wealthier countries, it does not always produce more nutritious food or get food to those in dire need. In Episode 6 of Better Food. Better World.,...
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Food and War - a Recipe for Disaster
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“Conflict and hunger, peace and food security. These are really inextricably linked.” As Afghans prepare for winter, they are on the brink of another crisis — hunger. War and conflict have shut down the economy, displaced hundreds of thousands, and caused food prices to rise. 22.8 million are facing acute food insecurity. People who have survived years of war are now at risk of dying without a single shot being fired. People around the world face severe challenges to access food because of war. In Episode 5 of Better Food. Better World., Elizabeth Nyamayaro and her guests explain why...
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Youth and Climate Change – Their Take
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“While feeding ourselves, we should feed nature because it's by feeding nature that we will feed ourselves again.” There was a frenzied tension and intensity at COP26. In the final days of the conference, delegations from around the world were deep in negotiations to address our world’s most dire crisis – climate change. Young people were leading the way. The biggest youth delegation ever called on world leaders to make the drastic changes needed to ensure our planet has a future. But will they listen? Episode 4 of Better Food. Better World. takes us to the climate conference where...
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The Trouble with Food and Climate Change
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“Honduras has the potential to lead on solutions to address climate change” In the midst of Honduras’ rolling mountains and green forests, there are greenhouses growing mouth-watering fresh vegetables. Communities come together to prepare meals with these vegetables and sell the produce. Recurring droughts, intense floods, bark beetle, and more put Honduras on the frontlines of climate change. Despite the devastation, there is joy and hope to be found. Communities are coming up with solutions like greenhouses that will help them not only survive but also thrive. Episode 3 of Better Food....
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The ‘Top’ of the Food Chain – We’re Rich, Right?
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“Too much is not a good thing” Every time we go to the grocery store, we are surrounded by a seemingly infinite bounty of food. We may choose a yogurt thinking it is a healthy option only to realize it has as much sugar as a doughnut. Surrounded by choice, children in America and around the world are not getting the nutrition they need to grow healthy and strong. In the second episode of Better Food. Better World., we talk about who is at the ‘top’ of the food chain and uncover the growing nutrition crisis raging from food deserts in the US to parts of Africa living on the edge...
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Did You Know You Live In a Food System?
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“There is no such thing as cheap food.” For some of us, a typical day’s diet could be oatmeal for breakfast, bean salad for lunch, and fish and chips for dinner. Little do we know, the oatmeal was farmed unethically with illegal pesticides, the beans came from a country suffering from drought and the fish came from a company that illegally overfished foreign waters, destroying a way of life for generations of local fishermen. Like many of us, Special Advisor for the UN World Food Programme, Elizabeth Nyamayaro grew up knowing hunger, despite a childhood filled with freshly picked mangos...
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Trailer - Better Food. Better World.
Better Food. Better World.
How do we ‘do food better?’ Better Food. Better World. poses this very question to listeners working in food policy and concerned global citizens alike. Over the course of 6 episodes, author Elizabeth Nyamayaro paints an audio picture of food systems around the world and the people involved from production to consumption, from farm to plate. In a world, where 811 million people go to bed hungry every single night while enough food to feed 2 billion people is wasted every single year, this podcast challenges all of us to think differently about food. Better Food. Better World. is a United...
info_outline“There is no such thing as cheap food.”
For some of us, a typical day’s diet could be oatmeal for breakfast, bean salad for lunch, and fish and chips for dinner. Little do we know, the oatmeal was farmed unethically with illegal pesticides, the beans came from a country suffering from drought and the fish came from a company that illegally overfished foreign waters, destroying a way of life for generations of local fishermen. Like many of us, Special Advisor for the UN World Food Programme, Elizabeth Nyamayaro grew up knowing hunger, despite a childhood filled with freshly picked mangos and cream straight from the goats – her family was badly affected by a drought driven by climate change devastated her village and crops.
In the premiere episode of, “Better Food. Better World”, Elizabeth shares her story and speaks with three leaders of the food security movement. The Father of Food Systems, Dr. Steven Were, gives us an overview of food systems. Chef Arthur Potts Dawson, star of The People’s Supermarket, challenges restauranteurs to educate their customers. Activist and poet Linda Gabriel stresses the importance of indigenous knowledge and shares a poem dedicated to her first food educator, her grandmother. Join us to learn why ‘Food is our greatest asset.’
Key Moments:
- 0:52 - Intro to “Better Food. Better World” with Elizabeth Nyamayaro
- 4:50 - Elizabeth shares her story of growing up, going hungry, and being saved by a UN worker.
- 11:55 - Elizabeth introduces Dr. Were who defines food systems.
- 17:04 - Elizabeth talks with Chef Arthur Potts Dawson and asks him about his favourite comfort food.
- 19:12 - Arthur Potts Dawson challenges restaurants and markets to address the terrible crime of food waste. Elizabeth responds with a story about the origins of fish and chips.
- 25:52 - Elizabeth talks with activist and poet Linda Gabriel who shares her discovery of the correlation between indigenous knowledge systems and permaculture.
- 29:46 - Linda Gabriel shares a poem dedicated to her grandmother.
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Connect with Elizabeth and Our Guests:
Elizabeth Nyamayaro:
Humanitarian and author of ‘I am a Girl From Africa’, Elizabeth Nyamayaro is the Special Advisor for the UN World Food Programme. Over the past two decades, she has worked at the forefront of global development and has held leadership roles at the World Bank, World Health Organization, UNAIDS, UN Women, and Merck. Her track record building and leading public-private partnerships is a key asset to WFP as it advocates for global solidarity to end world hunger.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/enyamayaro
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/enyamayaro/
Dr. Steven Were Omamo:
Dr. Steven Were Omamo is widely considered the “Father of Food Systems.” He is the current Country Representative for Ethiopia, the largest operation for the UN World Food Programme. Past roles with UN WFP include Coordinator of Food Systems Strategy, Policy and Support, and Deputy Director of Policy and Programme at our Rome headquarters. In this inaugural episode, Dr. Omamo gives us a brief education on food systems.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/swomamo
Arthur Potts Dawson:
Celebrity chef Arthur Potts Dawson argues that “There is no such thing as cheap food.” We either pay a financial or environmental cost for food. He challenges restaurateurs and markets to educate their consumers, allowing them the opportunity to support local food producers with their wallets.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/arthurpottsd
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/arthur_potts_dawson/
Linda Gabriel:
Poet and advocate Linda Gabriel stresses the importance of indigenous knowledge. While studying permaculture, she realized many of her classes taught knowledge her grandmother had already shared with her. This led Gabriel to seek further agricultural education from her elders. She leaves us with a poem dedicated to her grandmother.