Building community food webs, with Ken Meter
Channel: Inside Ideas
Date: 15/06/2021

Ken Meter is my guest on Episode 103 of Inside Ideas with Marc Buckley.

Ken Meter is one of the most experienced food system analysts in the U.S., integrating market analysis, business development, systems thinking, and social concerns. Meter has worked for fifty years in inner-city and rural community capacity building. His local economic analyses have promoted local food networks in 143 regions in 41 states, two provinces, and four tribal nations. 

Building Community Food Webs was published on April 29, 2021. Ken is also co-editor of Sustainable Food System Assessment: Lessons from Global Practice (Routledge, UK) in 2019. Meter’s work can be found at Crossroads Resource Center.

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00:00 - Building community food webs
00:42 - Introduction Inside Ideas guest Ken Meter on Episode 103 with Marc Buckley
01:40 - Building community food webs book release
04:31 - How have you weathered this crazy time?
06:53 - Systematic drain of wealth from rural communities
07:44 - Lessons from the pandemic
13:18 - Research, history, and trends in agriculture in the U.S
27:26 - The 2008 crises and investment in commodity
33:14 - Medical costs for diabetes & related conditions in the U.S
37:23 - The true cost is missing
42:40 - Starting in 1979 with interviewing farmers and their predictions
44:08 - Efforts in France for French farmers 
46:45 - Lacking local communities efforts and the consequences
49:00 - Food as a commodity - a problem
50:54 - Alternative Energy Resource Organisation - AERO
52:20 - The Montana story in the book 
55:50 - Building community food trade 
56:40 - Choose between commodities or communities system 
1:01:35 - Agriculture is our oldest economy
1:03:35 - Regenerative agriculture, what does it means?
1:04:32 - Rodale Institute on regenerative. Maria Rodale on Inside Ideas Ep 70: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJXpBwCJoIg
1:06:22 - The answer is local
1:08:52 - Glocal work
1:09:33 - Crossroads Resource Center
1:10:26 - The burning question, WTF - What is the Future?
1:16:32 - Was independent journalist as WTO was founded
1:20:18 - Sustainable Takeaway
1:22:10 - What should young people in your field think about?
1:24:02 - What I wished I knew from the start