‘The canary in the coal mine of our damaged foodstuff procedure.’ How effects investing can assistance do away with hunger

Episode Summary

SDG #2: Zero Hunger. The reply to hunger is not just more foodstuff. Mark Watson, Dan Horan and Quiana Broden assistance Liz and Steve describe how eliminating starvation needs a concentrate on the total meals process. The solution comes from making and distributing healthy food stuff sustainably, at a value everybody can pay for, and that supports the food producers. The Reasonable Meals Fund makes use of influence investments to back again business people who are supporting their communities with food items-based mostly organizations, this sort of as a black-woman-owned business bringing a plant-centered diet program to Detroit.

Episode Notes

In this episode you’ll listen to about: 

•  Worries of generating wholesome foodstuff sustainably.
•  Why “local” issues to food items growers and shoppers.
•  Pandemic illustrates how “un-resilient” the world’s food items devices are these days.
•  Mark Watson describes how Fair Foodstuff Fund supports food-centered corporations and pays investors a return.
• How Cooking with Que pivoted when Covid-19 took away its income.

Linked tale: Green pastures forward for sustainable food stuff put up Covid-19

United Nations SDG #2 Info

Guest bios: 

Mark Watson is a senior strategic investment decision advisor for the Reasonable Meals Community based mostly in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He supports the network’s effects investing arm, the Fair Food stuff Fund, which offers catalytic capital and business help to help business owners in foodstuff-based corporations that assist their communities.

Dan Horan is CEO and founder of Five Acre Farms. It aims to deliver regional food items to grocery stores, restaurants and meals outlets, giving milk, buttermilk, cage-cost-free eggs, and other dairy and apple-centered merchandise that are sourced and created within just 275 miles. Five Acre Farms will work with farmers utilizing sustainable techniques and pays them a reasonable selling price to make sure they are sustainable, far too. 

Quiana “Que” Broden is the owner of Cooking with Que, where she aims to train individuals how to “eat to live” by introducing them to extra plant-based mostly meals.

Worldwide ESG Summit streams throughout 3 time zones on May perhaps 27 – discovering the driving forces of a transforming planet the pressures (and pitfalls) related with facts, disclosure and stewardship, as perfectly as the products and asset classes readily available for ESG and sustainable investing.

UN’s Earth Food items Programme
Feeding The us
Feed the Starvation Fund
International FoodBanking Network

President Jimmy Carter audio clip courtesy of C-Span. From 1977 commencement speech to Notre Dame.

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