Ron’s guest this week is Ricardo Salvador and the two talk about food security, Ricardo’s upbringing in Mexico, and the definition of agriculture. As director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo works with citizens, scientists, economists, and politicians to transition our current food system into one that grows healthy foods while employing sustainable and socially equitable practices.
Previously, Dr. Salvador served as a program officer for food, health, and well-being with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Prior to that, he was an associate professor of agronomy at Iowa State University, where he taught the first course in sustainable agriculture at a land-grant university. He worked with other faculty to develop the nation's first sustainable agriculture graduate program in 2000. Dr. Salvador was named a 2013 NBC Latino Innovator and received the James Beard Foundation Leadership Award in 2014.
The interview was conducted on Nov. 17, 2015.
Links this episode:
National Sustainable Agriculture Oral History Archive (video link)
Union of Concerned Scientists
Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture
National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition
HEAL Food Alliance
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