116. Setting The Table for a Food Revolution
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 23 September 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the first episode in a brand new series on The Future of Food!
Today, this episode coincides with a very important international gathering, the first of its kind at the United Nations. Known as the UN Food Systems Summit, formally, it is also called The People’s Summit.
During this ongoing series we will seek to unlock the many changes needed to enable each sector – government, corporations and citizens to ask themselves, “How can we contribute to a transformative movement for an inclusive, regenerative and circular society where access to nutritious food is a right we actually realize for every single person?”
But before we eat, we need to set the table. We’re joined on this episode by:
Dr. David Nabarro
Co-Director | Imperial College of London Institute of Global Health Innovation
Senior Advisor | Food Systems Summit Dialogues
Strategic Director | 4SD Switzerland
Special Envoy of WHO Director General for COVID19
Johan Rockström
Director | Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research
Dr. Gunhild A Stordalen
Founder & Executive Chair | EAT
These incredible guests help us explore in-depth the challenges and opportunities our current food system faces, and show us why getting food right might just be the key to unlocking our path to achieving our 2030 goals.
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Thank you to our guests this week:
UN Food Systems Summit
Dr David Nabarro
Co-Director | Imperial College of London Institute of Global Health Innovation
Senior Advisor | Food Systems Summit Dialogues
Strategic Director | 4SD Switzerland
Special Envoy of WHO Director General for COVID19
4SD
Johan Rockström
Director | Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research
Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Dr Gunhild A Stordalen
Founder & Executive Chair | EAT
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outragean Optimism. I'm Paul Dickinson. |
| 0:16.0 | I'm Cristiana Fighettis, not Tom Rivett, Kanye. Where is Tom? |
| 0:21.0 | We don't really know. It's a table for two. Cristiana, this is the beginning of our |
| 0:27.0 | fantastic new series on the future of food. Launched on the day of the UN Food |
| 0:33.0 | System Summit at the UN General Assembly, with fantastic guests who are experts, |
| 0:38.0 | Dr. David DeBaro, Dr. Gunne Hill, Stored Darling, and Professor Johan Rockstrom. |
| 0:43.0 | So thanks for being here. |
| 0:49.0 | Okay, Cristiana, this is the first series in our fantastic future of food series. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm very, very excited about that because food's so important and we can talk about |
| 0:56.0 | that a little bit. But it is being launched this week at the UN General Assembly, |
| 1:01.0 | which is very significant on climate change, I believe. Can you give, |
| 1:06.0 | listen a little bit of an indication about your take on what's going on right now? |
| 1:10.0 | Well, yes, but should we say something about the fact that Tom is not here? |
| 1:15.0 | Because we can't just give him a free pass, just like that. |
| 1:21.0 | I agree. Clay has been thinking about giving us like a score for each time we |
| 1:26.0 | come up with an appropriate food metaphor. I think, you know, Tom has drawn |
| 1:32.0 | the short carrot. He's not here for this delightful snack. |
| 1:38.0 | I believe he's missing out because he's attending to his, this is such rubbish. |
| 1:44.0 | No, no, no, no, it's good. Let me try again. |
| 1:49.0 | You've got two points so far. He's attending to the little one that he's cooked up. |
| 1:54.0 | Zoe, it's her school this evening. He's got to go and be a parent at the school meeting. |
| 2:02.0 | And basically, he says that's more important than average and optimism. |
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