Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg (by Food Tank)
Oct 8, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
On Food Talk with Dani Nierenberg, Dani speaks with Ambassador Ertharin Cousin, CEO of Food Systems for the Future Institute. They answer the question if the next food crisis has begun, the forces…
Ertharin CousinGuest
Dani NierenbergHost
So I want you to tell our audience about, uh, Food Systems for the Future and, and what you, you are trying to do with this organization.
Uh, Food Systems for the Future came out of, uh, my lived experiences of addressing access to nutritious food, affordable nutritious food, both from a humanitarian standpoint as, as well as from a development standpoint, and the recognition that we were not going to, uh, address the challenges of the transformation of the food system for human health, environmental health-
... uh, as well as for the financial return that was necessary to all of the actors across the food system, particularly farmers, without, um, investing in and supporting the resilience of the businesses-
That we need a system that provides affordable access to nutritious foods if we are to ensure that we resiliently support that access that is necessary to address the challenges of lack of access to, um, diverse diets by too many people d- both domestically here in-
the United Stela- States, as well as internationally across the globe when the latest SOFI re-for- report tells us that some 3.2 billion people cannot afford access to a diverse and nutritious diet.
I'm glad you brought up the need for diverse diets because I think throughout, y- you know, most of, of what, what we've seen over the last, I don't know, 40, 50 years is a focus on calories.
So I want you to tell our audience about, uh, Food Systems for the Future and, and what you, you are trying to do with this organization.
Uh, Food Systems for the Future came out of, uh, my lived experiences of addressing access to nutritious food, affordable nutritious food, both from a humanitarian standpoint as, as well as from a development standpoint, and the recognition that we were not going to, uh, address the challenges of the transformation of the food system for human health, environmental health-
... uh, as well as for the financial return that was necessary to all of the actors across the food system, particularly farmers, without, um, investing in and supporting the resilience of the businesses-
That we need a system that provides affordable access to nutritious foods if we are to ensure that we resiliently support that access that is necessary to address the challenges of lack of access to, um, diverse diets by too many people d- both domestically here in-
the United Stela- States, as well as internationally across the globe when the latest SOFI re-for- report tells us that some 3.2 billion people cannot afford access to a diverse and nutritious diet.
I'm glad you brought up the need for diverse diets because I think throughout, y- you know, most of, of what, what we've seen over the last, I don't know, 40, 50 years is a focus on calories.
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