Kristen Rainey works to fight food waste and promote plant-based diets at Google. She spoke with Food Tank about the biggest problems she sees in today’s food system, and discussed innovative solutions to these challenges.
Food Tank
Building Food Awareness Among Young People
Food Tank had the opportunity to talk with BCFN Alumni Sujardin Syarifuddin about why it’s important that youth are active participants in shaping the future of global food systems.
Mailee Walker on Food Leaders: “We can truly be a considered a movement to be reckoned with”
Executive Director of the Claneil Foundation, Mailee Walker seeks to connect complimentary voices and elevate the power of small actions to make big differences in community health.
Jessie Bovay: “We need to teach young people food literacy”
Jessie Bovay, Director of Business Development at Mercaris: “The solutions to food insecurity and access will come from worldwide collaboration”
Jill Isenbarger: “Encourage people to eat in harmony with regional ecosystems”
CEO of Stone Barns, Jill Isenbarger is connecting these leaders in the food system to strengthen communities and advocate for the environment.
Duffield: Crop “Yield does not tell the whole story”
Duffield and is integrating livestock into crop rotations and helps aspiring and transitioning farmers by drawing on more than 20 years of farming experience and a background in teaching.
The Sound Food Uprising: A Movement to Reimagine Food in the Puget Sound
The Beecher’s Foundation is launching a ten-year consumer education campaign to reimagine the food system of the Puget Sound, the metropolitan region surrounding Seattle that is home to nearly four million people. Called the Sound Food Uprising, the campaign plans to teach one million eaters to challenge the way food is manufactured and deceptively marketed.
Lynsi Burton: On Writing, Food Policy, and a Meat-Free Lifestyle
Lynsi Burton opens up about a meat-free lifestyle, food waste, and food policies that can help build a better food system.
The Airfield Estate: “Ireland produces some of the best food in the world”
The Airfield Estate uses its century-old charitable heritage to inspire new change in the way visitors see food and the sources it comes from
Amber Lambke: Returning to our Roots Through Grains
Amber Lambke, President of Maine Grains, Inc., talks about returning to Maine’s grain producing history to strengthen local farmers and the economy.
