Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)

Dr. Michael Hamm is a C.S. Mott Professor of Sustainable Agriculture at Michigan State University, where he teaches and conducts research and outreach on community food security and community, regional, and sustainable food systems.  While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

Today on the podcast, Dani talks with Daisy Freund, Vice President of the ASPCA’s Farm Animal Welfare program, about a new survey of consumer attitudes towards industrial animal agriculture amid the COVID-19 pandemic. They also discuss two bills that seek to reform animal agriculture in the interest of animal and human health. While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

This week on the podcast, Dani sits down with Founder and Director of Local Futures. Helena Norberg-hodge. Listen as the two discuss topics surrounding indigenous knowledge, global economic systems, and alternatives to capitalist, globally dependent systems of production.  While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

For the rest of this week Food Tank alongside the ReFresh working group will be airing daily podcasts with panelists discussing “The Intersection of Food + Tech.” Over the next five days we are featuring 20 speakers co-hosted by Danielle Nierenberg and Forbes Magazine’s Chloe Sorvino. You can also watch these conversations live at 2PM all week. Additionally, Food Tank and ReFresh just released a new policy platform on the intersection of food and technology. Please visit FoodTank.com to download your free copy. Today’s theme is "Strengthening Supply Chains to Build Trust and Improve Food Security" Panelists include Tatiana Garcia Granados, Common Market; Chris Roper, Chris Roper Services; Karen Washington, Rise and Root Farm; Amy Wu, Farms to Incubators

For the rest of this week Food Tank alongside the ReFresh working group will be airing daily podcasts with panelists discussing “The Intersection of Food + Tech.” Over the next five days we are featuring 20 speakers co-hosted by Danielle Nierenberg and Forbes Magazine’s Chloe Sorvino. You can also watch these conversations live at 2PM all week. Additionally, Food Tank and ReFresh just released a new policy platform on the intersection of food and technology. Please visit FoodTank.com to download your free copy. Today’s theme is “Protection and Accessibility: Ensuring the Fair Use of Data in the Food System.” Panelists include Kacey Hanson, Dell Medical School; Ali Lange, Google; Matthew Lange, IC-Foods; and Robyn O’Brien, rePlant Capital.

For the rest of this week Food Tank alongside the ReFresh working group will be airing daily podcasts with panelists discussing “The Intersection of Food + Tech.” Over the next five days we are featuring 20 speakers co-hosted by Danielle Nierenberg and Forbes Magazine’s Chloe Sorvino. You can also watch these conversations live at 2PM all week. Additionally, Food Tank and ReFresh just released a new policy platform on the intersection of food and technology. Please visit FoodTank.com to download your free copy. Today’s theme is “The Power of Connectivity: Broadband Expansion in Rural Communities" Panelists include Michelle Miller, UW-Madison Center for Integrated Agricultural Systems; Leanna Mulvihill, Farm Generations Coop; and Kim Olson, Retired US air force, Democratic nominee for Texas Agriculture Commissioner; and Ankita Raturi, Purdue University.

For the rest of this week Food Tank alongside the ReFresh working group will be airing daily podcasts with panelists discussing “The Intersection of Food + Tech.” Over the next five days we are featuring 20 speakers co-hosted by Danielle Nierenberg and Forbes Magazine’s Chloe Sorvino. You can also watch these conversations live at 2PM all week. Additionally, Food Tank and ReFresh just released a new policy platform on the intersection of food and technology. Please visit FoodTank.com to download your free copy.   Today’s theme is Empowering Consumers Through Transparency. We are so excited to have these amazing panelists: Mark Kaplan of (en)visible; Matt Wadiak of Cooks Venture; Rick Whitted of Feeding Children Everywhere, and Dana Gunders of ReFed.

Food Tank has partnered with the International Fund for Agriculture Development (IFAD), the Global Alliance on the Future of Food to interview 25+ United Nations Food Systems Champions. Today is the first of seven discussions in the lead up to the UN Food Systems Summit and the first theme is “Addressing Power Imbalances Through Shared Power and Inclusivity.” Food Tank brings together incredible leaders from four continents for this discussion including Ajay Vir Jakhar of Bharat Krishak Samaj); Michelle Nunn, CEO of CARE USA; Jessica Vega Ortega of the Global Indigenous Youth Caucus); Mamadou Goita of the Institute for Research and Promotion of Alternatives in Development and special guest Christine Ciccone of The International Fund for Agricultural Development.  Dani is moderating alongside Ruth Richardson of the Global Alliance on the Future of Food who is also the Chairwoman of the UN Food Systems Summit Champions Network. We’ve done our best to identify who is speaking throughout. The next discussion with five more UN Food Systems Champions will be on live on February 25 at 9AM EST themed “Public Research for the Public Good.” You can register at FoodTank.com/Events. If you find value in this work, please consider becoming a Food Tank member at FoodTank.com/Join.

On “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg,” Dani talks with Barron Segar, World Food Program USA’s President and CEO. World Food Program USA (WFP USA) provides resources and develops policies needed to alleviate global hunger in affiliation with the U.N. World Food Programme, winner of the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. He describes WFP USA’s role and work, the Global Hunger Crisis, and funding resources in the fight to Zero Hunger. While you’re listening, subscribe, rate, and review the show; it would mean the world to us to have your feedback. You can listen to “Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg” wherever you consume your podcasts.

On this week’s episode, Dani sits down with Tanya Fields, the Founder and Executive Director of the Black Feminist Project. Listen along as the two talk about inequalities of the food system and how it affects single mothers and black womxn around the world.