Ep. 58 - Ambassador Ertharin Cousin. From Bill Clinton's and Barack Obama's Administration to Market-Based Access to Affordable, Nutritious Food. The Life You Aspire to, You Will Not Achieve, if You do not Have Health.

On this episode we are grateful to have Ambassador Ertharin Cousin. Ertharin is the CEO for Food Systems for the Future; the Managing Director and CEO of FSF Ventures; a Distinguished Fellow for the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; former Executive Director to the UN's World Food Program, and a Visiting Scholar at the Stanford University Center for Food Security and Environment. She also sits on the Boards of Bayer and Mondelez. #eatbetterfoodtoday #longevity #health #foodismedicine #billclinton #barackobama #feedingamerica #joseandreas Please visit our website https://eatbetterfoodtoday.com for YouTube videos, this week's recipe, interviews, books, research. Look for information on Ambassador Ertharin  https://www.linkedin.com/in/ertharin-cousin-0695205/     Other Websites mentioned by Ambassador Ertharin   https://www.fsfinstitute.net   https://fse.fsi.stanford.edu/news/ertharin-cousin-former-us-ambassador-and-world-food-programme-director-joins-stanford-visiting What's In Season https://www.seasonalfoodguide.org/  Cleveland Kitchen https://www.clevelandkitchen.com/  Segment Notes: Breakfast  1:17 Ertharin's Journey  2:11     - Law school to Bill Clinton's State Dept to Jewel Food Stores to Albertsons' to Feeding America to Barack Obama's US Ambassador to Food and Agriculture to Executive Director to the World Food Program to a Stanford Payne Distinguished Fellow   The Community Must Partner with the Store  13:14      - Remaining profitable     - Putting systems in place to reduce shrink and theft      - Customers need to be delighted and feel safe     - Store relationships to support good prices     - Former Senior Retail Executive Support - GEROC     - Post Natural Disaster Support Increases in obesity and diets related diseases is not just the poor  23:46      - Can't lose our parents, children's aspiration for better      - The Life You Aspire to You Will Not Achieve if You do not Have Health Goal for the Bayer and Mondelez Board of Directors  29:30      - Chair the Sustainability Committee - to discuss what is needed for sustainable production      - Meeting their responsibility to all their stakeholders First Thing to Improve Food Access, Food Nutrition, Food Education  32:29      - Partnerships – our success is their success      - Sell shares to a new grocery store to community organizations      - Church provides a $50 Coupon to shoppers at the local grocery store      - Do a market survey to determine if the community can support the store      - Local businesses in the local and surrounding communities purchase from the store Success Looks Like …  36:14     - Education, Cooking, Financial, Boy/Girl Scout meetings     - It's Hard and needs Creativity, Imagination, Hope, Commitment The Recipe: Fusilli Pasta with Vegetables, Tuna  39:55