post-type: Videos and podcasts

  • Handpicked podcast: Episode 6

    Handpicked podcast: Episode 6

    The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems just released the last episode of the first season in their podcast, Handpicked: Stories from the Field.  Episode 6: “We are all the shepherds of the data”: food, technology and data sovereignty Technology is changing all aspects of the food system, including how smaller-scale farmers and food producers…

  • Video diaries from Nairobi: Navigating food insecurity in times of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Video diaries from Nairobi: Navigating food insecurity in times of the COVID-19 pandemic

    Written by Louisa Nelle, Dr. Serah Kiragu-Wissler and Dr. Sarah Ann Lise D’haen   The impact of the coronavirus and government measures to curb the COVID-19 pandemic are causing unprecedented disruptions across all sectors of the economy and all segments of society in virtually every country across the world. As the pandemic and the measures…

  • Webinar: Water, Migration and Rural Development

    Webinar: Water, Migration and Rural Development

    This article originally appeared on: https://wle.cgiar.org/solutions/e-learning-water-migration-and-rural-development  “The way we talk about migration has major sociopolitical impacts,” said IWMI researcher Liza Debevec in her opening remarks at the webinar, “Water, migration and rural-development: What do we know?” But migration from rural areas – an important and pressing topic – is not a new adaption strategy, she added.…

  • Planetary Health: solutions that balance human health and a healthy planet

    Planetary Health: solutions that balance human health and a healthy planet

    Planetary Health recognises novel solutions that balance the need for both human health and a healthy planet, implemented with the generous support of The Rockefeller Foundation. Narrated by Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Development Programme, it tells the story of the winners of the 2019 Momentum for Change Awards, in the Planetary Health…

  • The Agrifood Pact of Quito: a citizens’ process

    The Agrifood Pact of Quito: a citizens’ process

    Despite their differences, those involved in the food system of the city of Quito are joining forces for the first time. The city depends heavily on imports from other regions because Quito produces only 5 percent of the food its population needs. The ideal is to have a solid food system with little waste, which…

  • UN Global Climate Action Awards – Interview with Ghent as winner

    UN Global Climate Action Awards – Interview with Ghent as winner

    Representatives from three award-winning projects will take the stage at COP25, showcasing planetary health solutions from across the world. One of the winners is the City of Ghent. Watch the interview with Katrien Verbeke (min 10-14).

  • Ghent’s food policy: setting a leading example through a participative approach

    Ghent’s food policy: setting a leading example through a participative approach

    Katrien Verbeke, Food Policy Coordinator, City of Ghent (Belgium) zur Tagung “Nachhaltige Ernährung” @Schweizerischen Städteverbandes

  • Interview with Barbara Emanuel, manager of the Toronto Food Strategy

    Interview with Barbara Emanuel, manager of the Toronto Food Strategy

    Interview with RUAF partner Barbara Emanuel manager of the Toronto Food Strategy at the Milan Urban Food Policy Pact Meeting in Montpellier, October 2019.  

  • Podcast series on sustainable food

    Podcast series on sustainable food

    The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food Systems, one of the RUAF partners, launched a podcast series. The podcast shares positive changes in the ways we produce, gather, eat, dispose of and understand our food. Handpicked: Stories from the Field presents the real-life stories of farmers, academics, community partners, policy makers and activists as they work…

  • Let’s talk about you and me: inclusivity in the global food system

    Let’s talk about you and me: inclusivity in the global food system

    We are all connected through food but the current state of our food system is unsustainable, unhealthy and unbalanced. Why is this the case, and what can be done? Check out the Hivos-supported video from the One Planet Network below to learn more. Following the 2018 UN High Level Political Forum, the One Planet Network adopted ‘food systems’…