Closing The Gap On Food Insecurity: ‘Hunger Industrial Complex’ And Farming As Revolution

By Steve Bynum, Meha Ahmad
Hunger In America
Cars wait in line during a Greater Pittsburgh Community Food bank drive-up food distribution in Duquesne, Pa., Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. While food banks have become critical during the pandemic, they’re just one path for combating hunger. For every meal from a food bank, a federal program called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps _ provides nine. Gene J. Puskar / AP Photo
Hunger In America
Cars wait in line during a Greater Pittsburgh Community Food bank drive-up food distribution in Duquesne, Pa., Monday, Nov. 23, 2020. While food banks have become critical during the pandemic, they’re just one path for combating hunger. For every meal from a food bank, a federal program called Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or food stamps _ provides nine. Gene J. Puskar / AP Photo

Closing The Gap On Food Insecurity: ‘Hunger Industrial Complex’ And Farming As Revolution

By Steve Bynum, Meha Ahmad
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What is the hunger industrial complex, and who is pulling the strings in our nation’s food system? In the latest installment of our Closing the Gap series, Reset brings on a food security expert who says the problem is much bigger than we think — and that “more food” is not the answer to ending hunger in the U.S.. Also a farmer joins the show to shares why agriculture is the “revolutionary” solution to historic injustice for Black people.

GUESTS: Andy Fisher, executive director of EcoFarm; author of Big Hunger: The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups

Kamal Bell, CEO of Sankofa Farms