Hello and welcome to Sigma Nutrition Radio. This is episode 563 of the podcast. My name is Danny Lennon.

You are very welcome to the show. Today we're going to be talking with Professor Martin Carraher,

who is Emeritus Professor of Food and Health Policy at the Centre for Food Policy at City

St. George's University of London. He has a

background in a wide variety of topics related to public health, health promotion, that is

focused extensively on food policy. And much of his work has focused on things like food poverty,

food security, the role of food aid, and some of the broader implications

of food systems on public health generally.

Indeed, Professor Kauher was on the podcast back in episode 344, where we discussed concepts

around food poverty and food aid provision.

I highly recommend you going and listening to that

and to putting it on your two lists in the list. You can of course search for that in the podcast

app of your choice right now. So that is episode 344. And that gets into a really, really important

and interesting area that I'm sure you will enjoy, particularly if you do end up enjoying this episode.

So in today's discussion, we're going to focus in on the concept of financialization of food

and how that has implications for global food security, national food security,

what that means for producers of food, and where the money ends up going. And so this has

connection to a whole range of fields well beyond nutrition from economics to public policy

to politics. And so within that, hopefully you find this an interesting and eye-opening conversation.

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