Podcast Topic: Climate Change, Environment & Food
The Leading Voices in Food
Podcast Topic: Climate Change, Environment & Food
E140: Russ Conser on Regenerative Ag, Beef, and the Birds
September 14, 2021
E140: Russ Conser on Regenerative Ag, Beef, and the BirdsHow does someone who spent 30 years at Shell, the massive energy company, and leading its GameChanger innovation program turn into a leader for regenerative agriculture? Today, we’re talking with Russ Conser, the CEO of Blue Nest Beef. He’s an expert on disruptive innovation, scaling up ideas, and has a passion for soil and ecosystem science.
Related podcasts: Agriculture & Tech | Climate Change, Environment & Food | Regenerative Agriculture | Voice of Farming |
E132: Connecting Food with our Environment in Daily Life
June 16, 2021
E132: Connecting Food with our Environment in Daily LifeMost people think about the connection between food and their budget, or food and their health, but more and more people are concerned about the connection between food and the environment. Someone who cares about this a great deal is food campaigner, Jennifer Molidor, from the Center for Biological Diversity.
Related podcasts: Climate Change, Environment & Food | Equity, Race & Food Justice | Food Waste & Implications |
E131: Fisheries Need Stronger Role in Food Policy and Food Security Planning
June 9, 2021
E131: Fisheries Need Stronger Role in Food Policy and Food Security PlanningFish is food, right? Well, it hasn’t always been treated that way in policy dialogues and development funding, according to a recent paper in AMBIO. Fisheries management practices and policies most often treat fish as a natural resource or a trade commodity, rather than an important contributor to food security. At the same time, food security policy and funding have focused primarily on agriculture instead of fish. This podcast is part of a series on fisheries and nutrition and a movement to bring fisheries into international food policy and programming.
Related podcasts: Climate Change, Environment & Food | Diet & Nutrition | Fisheries & Food Policy | Food Policy |
E120: GOODR Tackles the Logistics of Redirecting Healthy Food to the Hungry
March 9, 2021
E120: GOODR Tackles the Logistics of Redirecting Healthy Food to the HungryIf you go to the website of an organization called GOODR, at goodr.co, you will be rewarded with inspiration to be sure but you’ll also find some startling information. While one in seven Americans is food insecure, 72 billion pounds of edible food goes to landfills each year and $218 billion is spent growing, transporting and disposing this food. You will also learn from our guest, Jasmine Crowe and I quote, hunger is not an issue of scarcity, it is a matter of logistics. Jasmine Crowe founded the tech-enabled sustainable food waste management company, GOODR. The ingenious work she has done in Atlanta, which simultaneously addresses food waste and food insecurity, has received national and global attention and is featured in a terrific TED Talk that Jasmine’s given.
Related podcasts: Climate Change, Environment & Food | Food Insecurity | Food Waste & Implications |
E109: The FABLE of International Sustainable Development
January 28, 2021
E109: The FABLE of International Sustainable DevelopmentTo meet the challenge of feeding the world’s growing population and safeguarding the planet’s land and resources in perpetuity, nations are going to have to work together like never before. Today’s guests are part of a 20 country research consortium, dubbed FABLE, which stands for Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use and Energy. Guests: environmental policy specialist, Jordan Poncet, who coordinates FABLE for the Sustainable Development Solutions Network and Justin Baker, Associate Professor and forest resource economist at North Carolina State University.
Related podcasts: Agriculture & Tech | Climate Change, Environment & Food | Food Policy | International Food & Ag Policy |
E102: Lyla June on Returning to Native American Agricultural Traditions
December 15, 2020
E102: Lyla June on Returning to Native American Agricultural TraditionsWhat if we cultivated our environment instead of intensive crop planting and animal farming, and in turn created an abundance of food to meet our needs? Is this what First Nations people did here in the Americas? This concept is the focus of doctoral research of today’s guest, Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer, Lyla June. June is an Indigenous woman of Dine (Navajo), Tsetsehestahese (Cheyenne) and European lineage. She’s pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. And she’s fascinated by the intersection of Indigenous food systems and Indigenous land management.
Related podcasts: Advocacy & Food | Agriculture & Tech | Climate Change, Environment & Food | Equity, Race & Food Justice | First Nations Food Issues | Fisheries & Food Policy | Food Policy | History & Food |
E84: COVID Highlights Need to Change Food Security Strategy
August 18, 2020
E84: COVID Highlights Need to Change Food Security StrategyThis podcast is part of a series focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our food system. We’re interviewing Caitlin Welsh, director of the Global Food Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies based in Washington DC. Caitlin is a leading expert on global and US food security and particularly on the relationship between food security, urbanization, climate change, and conflict.
Related podcasts: Advocacy & Food | Climate Change, Environment & Food | COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Food | Equity, Race & Food Justice | Food Policy | International Food & Ag Policy |
E83: Hopi Farming – Agriculture, Culture, and Environment in Balance
July 28, 2020
E83: Hopi Farming – Agriculture, Culture, and Environment in BalanceToday, we’re digging in to the little known origins of regenerative agriculture, a conservation approach to farming and raising animals that focuses on soil health, biodiversity, improving the water cycle, and resilience to climate change. My guest today is Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a 450th generation Hopi farmer in the dry lands of Arizona and a research associate with the Native American Agriculture Fund.
Related podcasts: Agriculture & Tech | Climate Change, Environment & Food | First Nations Food Issues | Regenerative Agriculture |
E76: Food Fights – A Civil Conversation About Contemporary Food Debates
February 20, 2020
E76: Food Fights – A Civil Conversation About Contemporary Food DebatesUnderstanding our current food system, where it came from and especially where it might go is much easier if one understands history. Our field needs historians, thoughtful scholars who can do deep exploration of what has preceded the snapshot in time that represents what we’re experiencing today. This is why an exciting development was the recent publication of a book entitled Food Fights edited by two historians at North Carolina State University, Charles Ludington and Matthew Booker. We’re joined today by both of the editors.
Related podcasts: Agriculture & Tech | Chefs & Food Writers | Climate Change, Environment & Food | Food Policy | History & Food | Ultra-processed Food & Additives |
E69: Gabe Brown on the Desperate Need for Regenerative Agriculture
January 9, 2020
E69: Gabe Brown on the Desperate Need for Regenerative AgricultureImagine a farm doing such creative work that more than 2,000 people come to visit each year from all 50 states and more than 20 countries outside the US. What do you think such a farm might be doing? Our guest Gabe Brown can explain.
Related podcasts: Agriculture & Tech | Climate Change, Environment & Food | Regenerative Agriculture | Voice of Farming |