Tag Archives: Sustainability

Episode 30: Seeding the Future Challenge

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This year, the Seeding the Future Foundation is funding the first annual Seeding the Future Global Food System Challenge, which aims to inspire and support passionate, diverse and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system to be more sustainable, make healthier diets more accessible, and empower consumers to make choices benefitting both, personal and planetary health. The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is proud to officially launch the Challenge, and applications will open on June 7.

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Episode 27: Understanding and Addressing Global Hunger

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Today’s discussion includes Dr. William Moseley, a DeWitt Wallace Professor of geography and director of the Food, Agriculture & Society Program at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Dr. Barbara Burlingame, a professor of Nutrition and Food Systems at Massey University’s College of Health. Both Dr. Moseley and Dr. Burlingame are members of the Steering Committee for the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on food security and nutrition. They contributed to the FAO ‘s High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition’s 15th Report, “Food Security and Nutrition: Building a global narrative towards 2030.” The High Level Panel of Experts on food security and nutrition was established as part of the 2009 reform of the international governance of food security to advise the UN Committee on World Food Security (CFS), which is the foremost intergovernmental and international platform dealing with food security and nutrition. The HLPE aims to facilitate policy debates and inform policymaking by providing independent, comprehensive, and evidence-based analysis and advice at the request of CFS. And today, we’re going to discuss the issue of global hunger, which we know has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Episode 13: Food Foundations Part 3 – Rooted in Sustainable Food Systems: The Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation

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‘Food Foundations’ is a play on words that highlights foundations that work on improving global food and agriculture. The focus is on how food science could improve lives by increasing food supplies, extending shelf life, improving packaging and storage, reducing postharvest loss and consumer waste, integrating nutrition and agriculture, training and education, food safety, sustainable food systems, etc. Other aspects may also be covered, depending on the foundation’s specific work. This episode features the Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation.

Panelists:
Marta Antonelli, PhD

Co-Host:
Donna Rosa

Host:
Matt Teegarden, PhD

 

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Episode 10: Food Foundations Part 1 – Rooted in Food Science: Feeding Tomorrow

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Description: ‘Food Foundations’ is a play on words that highlights foundations that work on improving global food and agriculture. The focus is on how food science could improve lives by increasing food supplies, extending shelf life, improving packaging and storage, reducing postharvest loss and consumer waste, integrating nutrition and agriculture, training and education, food safety, sustainable food systems, etc. Other aspects may also be covered, depending on the foundation’s specific work. This episode features Feeding Tomorrow, the foundation of IFT.

Panelists:
– Bernhard van Lengerich, PhD, 2018 – 2019 Chair of Feeding Tomorrow
– Nancy Moriarity, PhD, 2019 – 2020 Chair of Feeding Tomorrow
– Donna Rosa, Co-Host, 2018 – 2019 Feeding Tomorrow Liaison of the IFT International Division
– Matt Teegarden, PhD, Host

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Episode 9: Exploring New Technology and Governance Challenges when Developing Food Products

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Sponsored by the Muscle Foods Division of IFT, this podcast focuses on the potential challenges of incorporating new technology into food products. Through our conversation with Larisa Rudenko, Visiting Scholar at MIT, we dive into the regulations and discuss how new technology is assessed by the FDA. Examples from the past, including bioengineering technology, reveal insights into the pathways for product development with emerging technology and navigating potential issues that will likely present themselves. Cellular agriculture and the ability to produce foods from cell cultures is also discussed, which has taken center stage for safety assessment, labeling, and consumer acceptance of new technology. The individuals participating in this podcast do not speak on behalf of the agency and are sharing their perspectives and experiences.

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