Climate Solutions: One Clean Plate with Felix Brooks-church & Alice Waters

Where and how we get our food has never been more important. As climate change continues to affect global food systems, the call to reduce animal product consumption to decrease emissions is making headlines. Climate change is also increasing malnutrition rates around the world. Efforts to mitigate these challenges include focusing on food sustainability and food system innovations. On Monday, Nov. 8, join Chez Panisse owner Alice Waters and Sanku CEO Felix Brooks-church for a program examining how global efforts to combat malnutrition and local, sustainable agriculture are emerging as key solutions to combat the climate crisis. (Video: The Washington Post)

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Where and how we get our food has never been more important. As climate change continues to affect global food systems, the call to reduce animal product consumption to decrease emissions is making headlines. Climate change is also increasing malnutrition rates around the world. Efforts to mitigate these challenges include focusing on food sustainability and food system innovations. Join Chez Panisse founder and owner Alice Waters and Sanku CEO Felix Brooks-church for a program examining how global efforts to combat malnutrition and local, sustainable agriculture are emerging as key solutions to combat the climate crisis.

Check out The Washington Post’s Climate Solutions section, in partnership with Rolex, focusing on the individuals working to find answers.

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Highlights

“I think that the pandemic has exposed the industrial food system, has wakened us in a way that nothing else could have to... what our relationship is with nature and our global interdependency.” (Video: Washington Post Live)

“I think it’s the most important part. I think we have to take that universal of food–we all eat, or should all eat every day– and education is the other universal, we all go to school, or should. So if we take those two things together, we can really change the world.” (Video: Washington Post Live)

“We’re looking into January, we’re looking to after the new year. We’re just too small to do any kind of social distancing. We need a certain number of people cooking and in the restaurant to make it work financially.” (Video: Washington Post Live)

“Globally, micronutrient deficiency affects close to two billion people, and the result of that is almost 14,000 children dying every single day from preventable sickness and illness. So it’s a big problem but luckily we do have solutions.” (Video: Washington Post Live)

Felix Brooks-church

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Felix Brooks-church co-founded and leads Sanku, a fast growing social enterprise based in east Africa. Felix has spent more than a decade developing and refining solutions for small-scale fortification and led all aspects of product development and engineering for Sanku’s award winning fortification technology and sustainable business model. Through its network of close to 700 small mills across east Africa, Sanku provides 2 million people access to fortified maize flour and is on track to reach 25 million people by 2025.

Alice Waters

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Alice Waters is a chef, author, food activist, and the founder and owner of Chez Panisse Restaurant in Berkeley, California (est. 1971). She has been a champion of local sustainable agriculture for over four decades. In 1995 she founded the Edible Schoolyard Project, which advocates for a free regenerative school lunch for all children and a sustainable food curriculum in every public school. In 2015 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama, proving that eating is a political act, and that the table is a powerful means to social justice and positive change. Alice is the author of sixteen books including her critically acclaimed memoir, Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook, the New York Times bestsellers The Art of Simple Food I & II, and The Edible Schoolyard: A Universal Idea. Her latest book is We Are What We Eat: A Slow Food Manifesto.