Episode 139: Dr. Ricardo Salvador
The Checkout speaks about food policy with Dr. Ricardo Salvador, Director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
https://www.ucsusa.org/about The Union of Concerned Scientists is a national nonprofit organization founded more than 50 years ago by scientists and students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Our mission: to use rigorous, independent science to solve our planet's most pressing problems. Joining with people across the country, we combine technical analysis and effective advocacy to create innovative, practical solutions for a healthy, safe, and sustainable future.
https://www.ucsusa.org/about/people/ricardo-salvador As the senior scientist and director of the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, Ricardo Salvador has over four decades of experience working 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. He was an associate professor of agronomy at Iowa State University. While at ISU, Dr. Salvador taught the first course in sustainable agriculture at a land-grant university, and his graduate students conducted some of the original academic research on community-supported agriculture. He also worked with students to establish ISU's student-operated organic farm, and with other faculty to develop the nation’s first sustainable agriculture graduate program in 2000; Dr. Salvador served as the program’s first chair. Dr. Salvador also worked as an extension agent with Texas A&M University. He advises a range of scientific, advocacy and social justice organizations, including the the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, The International Panel of Experts in Sustainable Food, The Land Institute, The Center for Good Food Purchasing, FoodCorps, the HEAL Food Alliance and others.
Dr. Salvador earned a B.S. in agricultural science from New Mexico State University. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in crop production and physiology from Iowa State University.
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