Handpicked Podcast
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems’ (LCSFS) podcast Handpicked: Stories from the Field showcases the excellent and varied research happening at the LCSFS with a focus on how the work creates meaningful changes to the ways we produce, get, eat and understand our food.
Handpicked: Stories from the Field is hosted by Amanda Di Battista, the LCSFS Project Coordinator, and Laine Young, PhD Candidate in Geography and Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
The first season of the Handpicked podcast launches on Sept. 30, 2019 and includes six episodes that will be released over the 2019/20 academic year.
Episode 2 - “What Gets Measured Gets Managed”: Hidden Food Metrics as Tools for Democracy
In this episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we sit down with Dr. Nevin Cohen, an Associate Professor at the City University of New York (CUNY) School of Public Health and the Research Director of the CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute in New York City, to explore how to measure food system change. Because of the complexity of our food systems, there are hundreds of metrics that can be used to measure sustainability and food system health. Dr. Cohen explains how food system researchers are rethinking the kinds of metrics they use in order to make important food policy decisions. Dr. Cohen highlights how hidden food metrics, or “Food Metrics 3.0,” can provide us with more nuanced understandings of what is happening in our food systems so that we can work together to make those systems more sustainable.
Listen to episode two | Discussion Questions | Glossary
Contributors
Co-Producers & Hosts: Amanda Di Battista & Laine Young
Research Assistant: Jake Bernstein
Guests
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Dr. Nevin Cohen
Support & Funding
Wilfrid Laurier University
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
Balsillie School for International Affairs
Music Credits
Keenan Reimer-Watts
Lee Rosevere
Resources
Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE)
Food Metrics Panel Discussion with Nevin Cohen
CUNY Food Policy Institute Home Page
SNAP Benefits Website
Canada’s Food Policy
References
Cohen, Nevin, et al. “‘B-side’ Food Metrics.” CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, 2019.
Household food insecurity is a serious public health problem that affects 1 in 8 Canadian households. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://proof.utoronto.ca/
CANADIANS VISITED FOOD BANKS 1.1 MILLION TIMES IN MARCH 2018. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://hungercount.foodbankscanada.ca/overallfindings/
Episode 1 - Because Everybody Eats: Exploring Sustainable Food Systems for a Better World
In the very first episode of Handpicked: Stories from the Field, we will introduce you to our podcast and give you a taste of what you can expect from the upcoming season. We sit down with Dr. Alison Blay-Palmer and ask her some tough questions about food systems and the work of the Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems (LCSFS). We explore the concept of “sustainable food systems” in depth so that listeners have the context they need to better understand the work that will be highlighted throughout the Handpicked series. In this episode, we also speak with LCSFS Advisory Board members and students about they how define sustainable food systems and what that means for the research and community engagement work they do. We hope this episode leaves you with a better understanding of the work being done by the LCSFS to make our food system more sustainable and whets your appetite for more stories from the field.
Listen to episode one | Discussion Questions | Glossary
Contributors
Co-Producers & Hosts: Amanda Di Battista & Laine Young
Episode editing & Research: Laine Young
Research Assistant: Jake Bernstein
Voiceovers: Takhmina Shokirova
Guests
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Alison Blay-Palmer
Andrea Collins
Patricia Ballamingie
Irena Knezvic
Alex Latta
Theresa Shumilas
Andrew Spring
Kaitlin Kok
Maggie Mills
Carla Johnston
Support & Funding
Wilfrid Laurier University
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
Balsillie School for International Affairs
Music Credits
Resources
Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems
Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE)
URBAL
Our Common Future Report
Food & Agriculture Cluster
Milan Urban Food Policy Pact
City Region Food Systems Project
References
Brundtland, G. H., Khalid, M., Agnelli, S., Al-Athel, S., & Chidzero, B. (1987). Our common future. New York. Retrieved from http://netzwerk-n.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/0_Brundtland_Report-1987-Our_Common_Future.pdf
IPCC (2019). Climate change and land: An IPCC Special report on climate change, desertification, land degredation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems (Draft). Retrieved from https://www.ipcc.ch/report/srccl/
La Via Campesina & GRAIN (2014). Food sovereignty: 5 steps to cool the planet and feed its people. Retrieved from https://viacampesina.org/en/food-sovereignty-5-steps-to-cool-the-planet-and-feed-its-people/