Food Systems - Solutions to Ending Global Hunger
Release Date: 12/23/2021
Food Systems - Solutions to Ending Global Hunger
Better Food. Better World.
“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“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., Elizabeth Nyamayaro is joined by WFP Director of Supply Chain Operations Division, Alex Marinelli, food journalist Mark Bittman, Purnima Menon of IFPRI-New Delhi, and Yemeni Food Science & Nutrition Advocate, Esra Shaiban. They explore the supply chain’s connection to our food systems, look at who is affected by poor nutrition, and share what we can do to improve the quality of the food we consume. Elizabeth and her guests understand the heavy burden our world is facing and believe that we can choose to do food better.
Key Moments:
- 1:25 - In the introduction, Elizabeth asks everyday people from privileged parts of the world about their relationship to food.
- 2:27 - Alex Marinelli explains how the supply chain links to our food systems.
- 8:00 - Elizabeth continues to talk with people on the street about what food is for.
- 8:32 - Mark Bittman discusses how despite appearing broken, our food systems benefit corporate interests.
- 12:14 - Elizabeth shares more from her interviews with people on the street reminiscing about food during their childhood.
- 13:34 - Purnima Menon centers food systems on people, especially the people most affected by poor diets — women and children.
- 22:25 - More voices from the street describing how they decide to eat.
- 23:20 - Esra Shaiban shares how we can improve the quality of food and add nutrition.
- 29:37 - Esra Shaiban, Alex Marinelli, and Elizabeth share their wishes for a world with better food.
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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
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Alex Marianelli - WFP Director of Supply Chain Operations Division
With an expansive range of work experiences in humanitarian settings, spanning deep field operations to regional bureaux and headquarters, Alex Marianelli is responsible for the supply chain operations of the world’s largest humanitarian agency. He has led numerous emergency responses across natural disasters, conflicts and health emergencies. Mr. Marinelli has also used his expertise to work with national disaster management agencies and governments around the world.
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alex-marianelli
Mark Bittman - The Bittman Project
Mark Bittman is an award winning journalist, best selling author and the star of four television series. A Special Advisor on Food Policy at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, Bittman is the recipient of six James Beard Awards and an IACP Award. The former lead food writer at the New York Times, is also the founder of the Bittman Project. A group founded on the shared belief, “that food should be fair to people and animals, affordable for everyone, nutritious, and produced in a way that respects nature and the environment.”
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/markbittman/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/bittman
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/markbittman/
Purnima Menon - IFPRI-New Delhi
Based in New Delhi, India, Purnima Menon is a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute. She is also the theme leader for South Asia Nutrition Programs in IFPRI’s Poverty, Health, and Nutrition Division. In her work in India, Dr. Menon directs POSHAN (Partnerships and Opportunities to Strengthen and Harmonize Actions for Nutrition in India), an initiative to support more use of evidence for nutrition in India. In addition to her research, Dr. Menon co-convenes a global nutrition policy course with the Institute for Development Studies in the United Kingdom, teaching adaptations of the course in India as well. Dr. Menon has a PhD in International Nutrition from Cornell University and an MSc in Nutrition from the University of Delhi.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/PMenonIFPRI
Esra Shaiban - Food Science & Nutrition Advocate from Yemen
Esra Shaiban is a graduate of the Food Science and Nutrition program at University Malaysia Sabah. Currently, working as a Quality Assurance professional in Turkey, she has been volunteering, primarily in Yemen since 2013. Driven by her interest in food security, Esra is a virtual volunteer for AIESEC, was a Continuous Professional Development Executive at HEYA 2020 and a Borneo Project participant. Shaiban is interested in educating people about food safety, food security, food labelling information, and customers’ rights pertaining to food production.