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The Dr. Hyman Show

How Women Are Leading the Way to a Conscious Food System

The Dr. Hyman Show

Dr. Mark Hyman

Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Medicine

4.6 • 8.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Globally women are leading the way when it comes to caring for biodiversity, water quality and quantity, soil health, and other aspects of consciously producing food for an ever-growing population. They are also producing 43% of the world’s food, despite lesser accessibility to own land, receive loans, and other essential components of farming. In this mini-episode, Dr. Hyman talks with Danielle Nierenberg and Paul Hawken about the potential for women to fundamentally improve our broken global food system, and in doing so, significantly contribute to the reversal of global warming.


Danielle co-founded the non-profit Food Tank in 2013, an organization focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Prior to starting Food Tank, Danielle spent two years traveling to more than 60 countries across sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America, meeting with farmers and farmers’ groups, scientists and researchers, policymakers and government leaders, students and academics, along with journalists, documenting what’s working to help alleviate hunger and poverty, while protecting the environment at the same time.


Paul Hawken is an environmentalist, entrepreneur, author, and activist who has dedicated his life to environmental sustainability and changing the relationship between business and the environment. He is Executive Director of Project Drawdown, a non-profit dedicated to researching when and how global warming can be reversed. His book, Drawdown, outlines the most comprehensive plan to reverse global warming.


Tune-in to Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Danielle Nierenberg: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/DanielleNierenberg


Tune-in to Dr. Hyman’s full-length conversation with Paul Hawken: https://DrMarkHyman.lnk.to/PaulHawken



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0:00.0

Coming up on this week's episode of the Doctors Pharmacy.

0:03.0

Most people don't know, I certainly didn't know, that a lot of the world's food,

0:08.4

I'll be 40-something percent of the food that's produced in the world globally,

0:12.4

is by women farmers.

0:14.5

Absolutely, about 43 percent to be accurate, yeah.

0:17.4

Hi, I'm Kaya Peruit, one of the producers of the Doctors Pharmacy Podcast.

0:21.5

Women play a foundational role in agriculture all over the world.

0:25.7

In two recent conversations, Dr. Hyman explored the potential for women

0:29.7

to fundamentally improve our broken global food system,

0:33.3

and in doing so, significantly contribute to the reversal of global warming.

0:38.2

Let's listen in as Dr. Hyman speaks with the co-founder of the nonprofit organization

0:42.6

Food Tank Danielle Nirenberg.

0:44.8

They have higher yields, better production, they're more effective,

0:49.1

and they do all these other stuff that is for their families.

0:51.6

They have a rough job, and they actually are better farmers than

0:55.6

men, it turns out.

0:56.8

One of the things that I'm most impressed by is how women are protecting

1:00.4

traditional varieties of vegetables and grains, and really saving seeds,

1:05.6

and making sure that they're available for the next season, and for the next generation.

1:10.0

Women were always the caretakers of seeds, and it's really,

1:13.0

they're the ones who keep that going, and make sure that it's around for their kids.

1:18.0

You talk about how, by actually empowering women,

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