Carrie Stadheim
If Americans learned one thing from the Covid pandemic, it should have been that we need a more secure food system.
That is what North Dakota State University’s professor Kalidas Shetty, with the Global Institute of Food Security and International Agriculture, told TSLN.
A reported ransomware attack over Memorial Day weekend affecting JBS shut down all of their US beef plants and slowed pork and poultry processing in this country.
Shetty, a biochemist, said “The lesson from all of this is that the more centralized and more concentrated any part of the production system is, the more vulnerable it is to breakdowns which in turn pose challenges for consumers.
KVRR Local News More Than a Meal: Fighting Hunger Near and Far focuses on the global scale of food insecurity
April 14, 2021
“More Than a Meal: Fighting Hunger Near and Far” focuses on the global scale of food insecurity.
Professor of Plant Science and Founding Director of the Global Institute of Food Security and International Agriculture, Dr. Kalidas Shetty says over a billion people suffer from a lack of food. He says the pandemic shows people are eating fewer fruits.
The NDSU campus has two programs: Goods for the Herd and Swipe Out Hunger. The Goods for the Herd coordinator says students can pick up food on campus.