On April 29, 2021 the National Institute hosted a virtual panel discussion among four expert panelists about the complex issues surrounding food and how to feed humanity in the face of climate change. With participation by Eleanor Sterling of the American Museum of Natural History, Kyra Busch of the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, Will Rosenzweig of UC Berkeley, and Don Taylor of AmplifiedAg, Inc. Moderated by NISS Trustee Angela Cason.
You can watch and share the video of the event below or on the National Institute YouTube channel.
Learn More: A collection of links offered by our panelists to learn more about food production, distribution, and systems.
• Alliance of Native Seedkeepers https://www.allianceofnativeseedkeepers.com/
• Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture - exhibition at AMNH: https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/our-global-kitchen-food-nature-culture
• Project Drawdown: https://drawdown.org/sectors/food-agriculture-land-use
• FoodTank: https://foodtank.com/
• World Resources Institute Sustainable Food Future hub: https://www.wri.org/food#
• Stockholm Resilience Center: https://www.stockholmresilience.org/research/research-themes/food.html
There is also this site, which is more advocacy oriented:
• Food and Water Watch https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/
• Beacons of Hope (for Food Systems Transformation): https://foodsystemstransformations.org/
• Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance: https://nativefoodalliance.org/
• IPES-Food: http://www.ipes-food.org/
• And a brand new report from IPES Food- The Long Food Movement: http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/LongFoodMovement
• Civil Eats (and a few others) has a variety of stories on the issues at hand: https://www.google.com/amp/s/civileats.com/amp/
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