The ‘Top’ of the Food Chain – We’re Rich, Right?
Release Date: 10/14/2021
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Trailer - Better Food. Better World.
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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“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 of food security. Host Elizabeth Nyamayaro is in New York for this episode surrounded by an abundance of food choices. But this episode’s guests, Dr. Agnes Kalibata, UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the 2021 Food Systems Summit; Stephen Grimaldi, Executive Director of New York Common Pantry; and Lauren Bush Lauren, Founder and CEO of FEED, reveal the truth about all of the choice: much of the food we eat lacks nutritional value. What’s worse, children and our climate are paying the price. Finally, David Beasley, Executive Director of the World Food Programme challenges audience members at the UN Food Systems Summit with the question, “If we’re so rich, how come hunger still exists?” From the top of the food chain to the bottom, hunger is an ‘all of us’ issue.
Key Moments
- 3:35 - Elizabeth shares how an abundance of food choices shaped her childhood and her life in New York City.
- 6:57 - Dr. Agnes Kalibata alerts listeners to the growing nutritional crisis and food deserts.
- 10:55 - Elizabeth visits a leading New York food pantry and speaks with Stephen Grimaldi.
- 17:50 - Lauren Bush Lauren shares why she wanted to make a difference by giving children healthy food.
- 29:20 - Exec. Director David Beasley's urgent call to action at the UN Food Systems Summit.
Selected Links:
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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.
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Dr. Agnes Kalibata
Dr. Kalibata is the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy to the 2021 Food Systems Summit. With a distinguished track record as a policymaker, agricultural scientist, and intellectual, Dr. Kalibata is a past recipient of the Yara Prize, now the Africa Food Prize. Dr. Kalibata has served as the President of AGRA, working with public and private partners to ensure food security in Africa, since 2014.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Agnes_Kalibata
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/agnes-kalibata-a38296122/
Stephen Grimaldi
After witnessing poverty as a child and experiencing poverty and food insecurity as a teenager, native New Yorker Stephen Grimaldi has made it his life’s work to create sustainable solutions to both poverty and food insecurity. Stephen is the Executive Director of New York Common Pantry, and was elected to the Food Bank for New York City’s Strategy Council in 2014.
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Lauren Bush Lauren
Mother, acclaimed former fashion designer and model, Lauren Bush Lauren founded the charity FEED in 2007 after travelling with the World Food Programme. Established to fight global childhood hunger, FEED collaborates with artisans from India to Kenya to create fashion collections and coffee products. Proceeds made from sales feed children and create sustainable incomes for the artisans that FEED works with.
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FEED
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/FEEDprojects
David Beasley
The recipient of a Profile in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation in 2003, David Beasley is a former elected member of the great state of South Carolina’s House of Representatives and one of the youngest people ever elected to the position of Governor in South Carolina history. In 2017, Mr. Beasley was appointed Executive Director of the World Food Programme (WFP) at the Under-Secretary-General level.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gov.beasley
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WFPChief
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-m-beasley-1319b3b