The Sustainability Inquiry

S1 E1: Rethinking Our Food Security Systems in a Changing Developed World

In this episode of The Sustainability Inquiry, I make the primary assertion that #FoodSecurity built on global supply chains has in the second quarter of 2020 shown us how easily expendable it can be. Covid19 has fully flexed itself as a challenge to the second Sustainable Development Goal SDG2, our resolve to end hunger and if that is not enough a wake-up call to build robust local food supply chains and systems, there will never be one.  I go on to look at how the corporate food regimes and their supply in the Global North have conventionalized food waste as a culture on one side existing alongside food insecurity. I further make a call to rethink the place of technologies as in themselves a solution to food insecurity yet with their advancements they  present delicate frailties in food systems that allow for food leakages along value chains on the backdrop of mass production and consumption albeit to the detriment of the environment while diminishing the very place and value of technology in creating more robust food systems that have equally strong distribution capacities to match production capacities; which is far from being the case. I make no conclusion to this inquiry, a separate episode will be dedicated to a compound conclusion  and verdict following the second episode on Rethinking Our Food Security Systems in a Changing Developing World which looks at problems in the global South.

S1 E0 The Sustainability Inquiry Introduction

Introduction to The Sustainability Inquiry Podcast Let's have the conversations going