在Covid-19大流行期间的每个工作日,食品和农业专家的客人都会现场直播食品谈话,讨论食品系统中一些最紧迫的问题。
Our live conversations have focused on the resiliency of regional farmers, the importance of speaking out for food justice, and the need to improve wages and working conditions for farm workers and restaurant staff, in addition to many other topics.
对于我们的食品系统中的许多人来说,时代很难农民togrocery store workersto那些饿了. At the same time, the chefs, farmers and growers, entrepreneurs, and advocates who power our food system are working hard to imagine and create a post-COVID food system that’s more sustainable and more equitable and that leaves no one behind.
Food Tank is highlighting 10 conversations from our daily Food Talk Live series that outline a hopeful and inspiring way forward for our global food system.
1.食品系统首席执行官凯撒·阿萨德(CaesaréAssad)6, on the entrepreneurs moving the food system forward
在成为食品系统6(FS6)首席执行官之前,凯撒·阿萨德(CaesaréAssad)在整个食品系统中担任厨师,企业家和商业顾问。现在,她领导FS6,这是一家专注于健康生态系统和农民的食品企业家的非营利加速器。阿萨德说:“我们拥有这个非常美丽,多元化的国家,我们可以在这里生产,我们可以为我们所有人创造如此多的财富,现在这是关于缩小和为我们所知道的这些差距提供资源。”在这次谈话中,她分享了企业家和发明家从挖掘实践和更全面的农业发展的故事。
2.Dan Barber of Blue Hill at Stone Barnson why we can’t go back to the pre-COVID food system
丹·巴伯(Dan Barber)是詹姆斯·比尔德(James Beard)屡获殊荣的厨师,并备受赞誉的可持续食品倡导者,他描述了Covid-19在我们的食品系统中暴露的弱点,包括在农场到餐桌运动中。“我不知道从中盘旋的答案是回到那一刻,因为这表明[农场到餐桌]在喂养人和食物的概念上并不那么强烈系统moving forward as we would’ve imagined,” he says. During COVID-19, he launched a food box program at Blue Hill at Stone Barns, called resourcED, which donates and sells prepared pantry items, produce from local farmers, and meat products. In this conversation, he says that perhaps what we need is actuallymoreartisanal food processors—cheesemakers, fermenters, meat-curers—to add value and nutrition to our food.
3.Dan Glickman, former Secretary of Agriculture, on how better diets can flatten the curve
Dan Glickman served as the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture from 1995 to 2001, and currently is a vice president of the Aspen Institute. Secretary Glickman has written in major media about the ways certain foods and nutrients—fruits, vegetables, vitamins C and D, zinc—can be preventative and boost our immune systems. In this engaging and detailed conversation, he analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on the food supply chain, explains how better nutrition can help flatten the curve of the pandemic, and outlines a better food system to mitigate the effects of future pandemics.
4.Daniel Katz of the Overbrook Foundation投票出来“破碎的系统”
在自我隔离期间,丹尼尔·卡茨(Daniel Katz)发现自己的意大利面比平时要多得多。他说,这并不理想,因为我们所有人都需要花时间来改善我们作为个人的健康和福祉,因此我们可以更好地管理Covid-19等社区冲击。卡兹(Katz)是Overbrook基金会的副总裁兼高级计划主任,也是雨林联盟的联合创始人兼董事会主席。他说,在Covid-19之后,我们需要修复使农场工人和食品系统劳动不可见的“破碎系统”。这意味着投票支持优先考虑行星健康的候选人。他说:“如果我们想重建一个更绿,更健康,更安全的世界,那将从拥有同样愿景的政府开始。”
5.Karen Washington of Rise and Root Farmon the need for community advocacy for food justice
卡伦·华盛顿(Karen Washington)被称为“城市农业事实上的教母”,花了数十年的时间倡导食品正义和社区园艺。现在,她领导纽约的Rise&Root Farm。她说,在美食谈话现场时,Covid-19正在击中颜色的农民,特别是前进的道路不是像往常一样的政治,而是聚集在一起进行系统的变化。她告诉我:“我们都在受苦。”“但是归根结底,让我们坚强的伙计们彼此信仰,我们将团结起来互相帮助,重新站起来。”
6。Kathleen Finlay, President of the Glynwood Center, on the resilience of regional farms during COVID-19
Kathleen Finlay, the president of the Glynwood Center for Regional Food and Farming, works to support farmers in exchanging resources, sharing knowledge, and helping one another in getting crops to market. During COVID-19, Glynwood has been focused on solving farmers’ distribution challenges as wholesale purchases slow. Finlay says Glynwood has also helped create a phone tree directory, so if a farmer were to get sick they would be able to call upon other growers for support and resources.
7。米尔市农贸市场的玛莎·阿彻(Martha Archer)on how farmers markets are staying open during COVID-19
As the executive director of Mill City Farmers Markets, Martha Archer works to connect local and organic farmers with consumers in Minneapolis, Minnesota. During COVID-19, as an officially designated essential business, Mill City Farmers Markets has launched a drive-through market. This allows them to continue to support vendors while practicing what Archer calls “physical distancing.” Farmers markets across the country are working together to figure out what a new model will look like. “How do we move customers through quickly and safely, and change what markets have been, which is a place to congregate and socialize?” Archer asks.
8。Maximo Torero of the UN Food and Agriculture Organizationon strengthening global supply chains
联合国粮食和农业组织(FAO)的首席经济学家马克西莫·托罗(Maximo Torero)与他在罗马的自我隔离中现场直播了食品谈话。Covid-19的问题与2007 - 2008年的食物冲击不同,当时食品价格受到稀缺的显着影响。托罗说,今年的粮食量很高,收成很丰富。取而代之的是,障碍是后勤的 - 过渡限制,配额和锁定使得很难将食物从生产者转移到消费者。在这次详细的对话中,托罗(Torero)带领我们浏览了全球供应链,以解释为什么世界各地必须抵制恐慌的冲动。
9。有机消费者协会的罗尼·康明斯在绿色的新协议上用于再生农业
As the executive director and co-founder of the Organic Consumers Association, Ronnie Cummins has been researching and advocating for organic growing for decades. He argues that regenerative agriculture needs to become the norm—farming that goes beyond simply restoration, but that truly makes the soil quality better. But it cannot be prohibitively expensive, he warns: “We need to realize that economic justice and the growth of organic and regenerative food and farming and land use go together. We can’t have one without the other. That’s what’s so beautiful about this Green New Deal.”
10.萨鲁·贾亚拉曼(Saru Jayaraman)of One Fair Wageon the vulnerability of service-industry jobs during COVID-19
As the president of One Fair Wage, Saru Jayaraman advocates on behalf of workers across the service and food industries. One Fair Wage calls for an elimination of the tipped minimum wage, which allows employers to pay tipped employees less than the federally mandated minimum. On Food Talk Live, she described how food-service workers are being placed in an especially tough spot by COVID-19. A majority of those who have been laid off—including undocumented food workers, those who have been in jobs for a short time, or people who rely on several different jobs—are unable to access unemployment benefits.