143. An Appetite for Adaptation
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 10 March 2022
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to our series on the Future of Food!
In this episode, we’ll explore the significance of adaptive transformation in global food systems. How do farming and consumption play into creating an inclusive, just, and beautiful future?
From empowering women farmers in Africa, to telling the story behind every piece of organic produce, from considering food value over food price, to what to ask at your grocery store, we examine why urgent transformation is needed to protect the people – and land – growing our food against the increasingly devastating impacts of climate change.
You’ll hear from:
- Wanjira Mathai | Vice President + Regional Director for Africa, World Resources Institute
- Volkert Engelsman | Founder + CEO, Eosta
- Jenipher Sambazi | Coffee Farmer + Vice Chair, Mount Elgon Agroforestry Community Cooperative Enterprise
- Elen Jones | Co-Founder + Director, Jenipher's Coffi
- Ed Davey | Policy + International Engagement Director, Food and Land Use Coalition + Co-Director, WRI UK
- Helena Leurent | Director General, Consumers International
So with food being at the heart and centre of the human story, there’s not a minute to waste. Let’s get on with it!
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Jenipher Sambazi
Coffee Farmer & Vice Chair, Mount Elgon Agroforestry Community Cooperative Enterprise (MEACCE)
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Elen Jones
Co-Founder and Director, Jenipher's Coffi
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Outrageant Optimism. I'm Tom Rivicana. I'm Cristiana Figueroos. |
| 0:16.8 | And I'm Paul DeGunson. This week we bring you the next episode in our series on the future |
| 0:21.7 | of food. We'll be digging deep into our current food system to examine why urgent transformation |
| 0:27.4 | is needed to protect the people who grow it and the land it is grown on against the increasingly |
| 0:33.2 | devastating effects of climate change. |
| 0:46.0 | You may remember we launched this series last year just before COP26 and if you haven't had a |
| 0:50.3 | chance to listen to those episodes, they're great conversations with David Nabaro, |
| 0:55.2 | Gunhill, Stordalen and Agnes Calabata and lay out what's at stake if we don't make this |
| 1:00.9 | urgent transition to a more sustainable food system. Now, before we dive into this episode, |
| 1:06.0 | Cristiana Paul, I think first of all we should just recap briefly on where we got to with |
| 1:11.0 | food systems at COP26, which of course, although it wasn't the top line item, was a really |
| 1:15.8 | important element of the negotiation. So who would like to kick off in that direction? |
| 1:20.8 | Well, here's a suggestion. Why don't I talk a little bit about COP26 and then, Paul, would you |
| 1:25.6 | like to pick up on the IPCC report? Because I think both are really important contacts for this. |
| 1:31.3 | Sounds good. So COP26, I would say from my recollection of previous |
| 1:39.2 | cops, definitely the cop that gave more space to the whole issue of land use slash food systems, |
| 1:49.2 | slash health. We hadn't seen that. I think previous cops had been much more narrowly focused on |
| 1:56.4 | emissions, emission reductions, adaptation, but hadn't really broadened our understanding that, |
| 2:02.9 | in fact, both emission cuts and adaptation are very centrally issues within the food system |
| 2:10.5 | and affect our personal health. So really wonderful to have seen that space being opened up |
| 2:18.8 | at the COP and much more focus being brought forward on how food is such an issue in our |
| 2:26.7 | personal lives, but also in climate change and addressing climate change. And from a numbers |
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