Clark Wolf is the host and organizer. The panel—on food and politics—includes me, talking about my memoir, Slow Cooked, An Unexpected Life in Food Politics; Chloe Sorvino, author of Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat; Alex Prud’homme, author of Dinner With The President: Food, Politics and the History of Breaking Bread at the White House; and Tanya Holland, author of Tanya Holland’s California Soul. Free, but register here. It starts at 5:00 p.m. and lasts one hour.
by Marion Nestle
Aug
24
2018
Weekend reading: Overcoming barriers to the Sustainable Development Goals
A group of organizations interested in achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030, has issued a report spotlighting the goals (and see my previous post on this topic)
The report highlights the barriers and suggests what to do about them. Here are a few examples related to food goals:
- SDG 1—The increasing concentration of wealth and economic power as an obstacle to sustainable development—and what to do about it.
- SGD 2—Policies that strengthen the nexus between food, health, ecology, livelihoods and identities.
- SDG 12—Curbing consumption of ultra-processed foods and beverages critical to achieving SDG 12
- SDG 14—Sustainable fishery or blue economy?