Podcast Topic: Food Insecurity
The Leading Voices in Food
Podcast Topic: Food Insecurity
E81: Time for Universal Free School Meals
July 28, 2020
E81: Time for Universal Free School MealsThis podcast is part of series focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our food system. When the pandemic forced schools to close, school districts and states scrambled to keep a nutritional safety net working for vulnerable students. Millions of US students rely on school meals and summer feeding programs to get food each day. I am delighted to welcome Janet Poppendieck from the City University of New York Urban Food Policy Institute to this podcast. She is the author of “Free for All: Fixing School Lunch in America.”
Related podcasts: Child Development & Nutrition | Childhood Obesity | Children Food Preferences | COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Food | Diet & Nutrition | Equity, Race & Food Justice | Food Insecurity | Food Policy | School Meals |
E77: School Meals During a Pandemic – What Works with Katie Wilson
June 3, 2020
E77: School Meals During a Pandemic – What Works with Katie WilsonAbout 33 million children access school meals every day across the country. Today, we’re exploring the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young students: children who receive much needed nutrition through their school. We interviewed Dr. Katie Wilson, executive director of the Urban School Food Alliance. The Urban School Food Alliance is a nonprofit coalition of the largest school districts in the U.S, including New York, LA, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Boston.
Related podcasts: Advocacy & Food | Child Development & Nutrition | Childhood Obesity | Children Food Preferences | COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Food | Diet & Nutrition | Equity, Race & Food Justice | Food Insecurity | Food Policy | School Meals |
E66: Jeremy Everett: Ending Hunger Takes Coordinated Action
November 12, 2019
E66: Jeremy Everett: Ending Hunger Takes Coordinated ActionFaith-based efforts can be powerful and compelling ways to address a number of social issues, including food insecurity.
Related podcasts: Equity, Race & Food Justice | Faith & Food | Food Insecurity | Philanthropy & Food Systems |
E57: How FoodCorps and Walmart are Driving Food Security in the US
November 7, 2019
E57: How FoodCorps and Walmart are Driving Food Security in the USImagine you would like to address food, and food insecurity in particular, and could start with a blank slate. What kind of programs and practices would make sense given the incredible array of possibilities? Our guests today, Curt Ellis and Karrie Denniston have addressed this issue in their own work. Welcome to The Leading Voices in Food.
Related podcasts: Advocacy & Food | Food Banks, Food Pantries & Soup Kitchens | Food Industry Behavior & Marketing | Food Insecurity | Philanthropy & Food Systems |
E48: Maureen Black on Lasting Impact of Food Insecurity on Children
September 23, 2019
E48: Maureen Black on Lasting Impact of Food Insecurity on ChildrenIt is well known, and has been for many years, how prevalent food insecurity is in the U.S. and elsewhere. People are especially moved when they think of children who are malnourished. Our guest Dr Maureen Black is one of the world’s leading experts on nutrition and its impact on the health and development of children and on how to reduce health disparities by improving child nutrition.
Related podcasts: Child Development & Nutrition | Childhood Obesity | Children Food Preferences | Diet & Nutrition | Food Insecurity | Food Policy | Obesity |
E19: Martin Bloem – Embrace Complexity to Fix the Food System
March 21, 2019
E19: Martin Bloem – Embrace Complexity to Fix the Food SystemOne of the most important questions facing the world is how it will feed itself both now and in the future. Answering this question will require the brightest minds; people who will understand the complex interactions of trade, poverty, climate change, agriculture technology, and the ever-changing political landscape from country to country. And this is just a name, some of the factors. Few people are as capable of seeing how all these pieces fit together as our guest Dr. Martin Bloem, professor, and director of the Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Related podcasts: Agriculture & Tech | Food Insecurity | International Food & Ag Policy |
E22: Heber Brown on Organizing Communities Around Their Food
March 12, 2019
E22: Heber Brown on Organizing Communities Around Their FoodIn the US food system, communities of color suffer disproportionately from lack of access to affordable, nutritious food. But what happens when you connect growers with their communities? Or when communities grow their own food on Church owned land? In Baltimore, Maryland, and along the I-95 corridor in the southeast United States, you can see this happening through the Black Church Food Security Network. Our next guest on The Leading Voices in Food is Reverend Dr. Heber Brown, who founded this network with the goal of helping churches to grow their own food on church-owned land, and to partner black farmers and urban growers with historically African American congregations to create pipelines for fresh produce.
Related podcasts: Community & Economic Development | Equity, Race & Food Justice | Faith & Food | Food Insecurity |
E20: Darriel Harris on Harnessing Faith to Improve Community Health
E20: Darriel Harris on Harnessing Faith to Improve Community HealthCan you make sustainable changes in community or neighborhood health without tackling the issue of food and diet? Why is such work so difficult? What is the role of churches and other faith organizations? Our next guest on The Leading Voices in Food is Reverend Darriel Harris and he works on this problem in a variety of ways.
Related podcasts: Community & Economic Development | Diet & Nutrition | Faith & Food | Food Insecurity |
E27: William Dietz on Obesity, Undernutrition & Climate Change
March 3, 2019
E27: William Dietz on Obesity, Undernutrition & Climate ChangeIt would seem at first glance that undernutrition and obesity are opposite sides of the same coin and not very related to one another and that neither of these issues would be related at all to climate change. Well, this turns out to not be true at all according to an authoritative new report for our listeners. The title of the report is The Global Syndemic of Obesity, Undernutrition and Climate Change, The Lancet Commission Report. One of the architects of that report is Dr. William Dietz.
Related podcasts: Child Development & Nutrition | Childhood Obesity | Climate Change, Environment & Food | Diet & Nutrition | Equity, Race & Food Justice | Food Insecurity | International Food & Ag Policy | Obesity | Regenerative Agriculture |
E25: Christopher Carter on Looking at Food Theologically
February 19, 2019
E25: Christopher Carter on Looking at Food TheologicallyHow should society balance people’s needs and wants for meat and eggs against the needs and wants of farmers and farm animals? What do theologians and ethicists have to say about factory farming, animals and marginalized communities. It’s a complicated subject that triggers strong feelings about moral economics, racial equity, nutrition, and environmental sustainability will explore these issues today on The Leading Voices in Food podcast with our guest, Methodist pastor Christopher Carter, who’s also an assistant professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego.
Related podcasts: Advocacy & Food | Equity, Race & Food Justice | Faith & Food | Food Banks, Food Pantries & Soup Kitchens | Food Insecurity |