234112 Infrastructure Imperatives for Affordable, Healthy, Green and Fair Food

Tuesday, November 9, 2010 : 11:35 AM - 11:50 AM

Ricardo Salvador, PhD, MS , Food, Health and Wellbeing, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, MI
There are many hidden injustices in our food system due to the infrastructure through which it operates. Each of the justice issues highlighted in the other talks during this session could be addressed, at least in part, through changes to our food system infrastructure. Whether ensuring workers' safety via smaller scale slaughterhouses or a consumers' access to affordable, fresh and healthy food via supply chains bringing regionally produced food to underserved areas, the possibilities for transformation are numerous and exciting. This talk will outline some of the injustices perpetuated by current food system infrastructure and will discuss specific strategies for changing and improving this infrastructure to mitigate injustices.

Learning Areas:
Diversity and culture
Public health or related organizational policy, standards, or other guidelines

Learning Objectives:
Identify infrastructure barriers to an affordable, healthy green and fair food system. List possible interventions to create infrastructure supporting affordable, healthy green and fair food.

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I lead the W. K. Kellogg Foundation’s national work in food systems, and I have previous experience as an academic researcher and educator on the topics of sustainable agriculture, world food issues, and crop production and physiology.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

Back to: 4080.0: Social Justice, It’s What’s Not for Dinner: Understanding and Overcoming Food System Disparities to Promote Health (A collaboration by the Food & Environment Working Group, ENV, OHS, IH, CBPHC, PHEHP, EPI, and SW)