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The Leading Voices in Food

Oct 31, 2019

Welcome to The Leading Voices in Food Podcast, an educational series produced by the World Food Policy Center at Duke University. I'm Deborah Hill. You're listening to a segment in our Voice of Farming series.

Tobacco has long been North Carolina's largest cash crop, but today, there are only around 2,000 tobacco farms...


Oct 28, 2019

Imagine you would like to address food and food insecurity in particular and could start with a blank slate, what kind of programs and practices would make sense given the incredible array of possibilities? Our guest today, Curt Ellis and Karrie Denniston have addressed this issue in their own work. Welcome to The...


Oct 28, 2019

Welcome to The Leading Voices in Food podcast, an educational series produced by the World Food Policy Center at Duke University. I'm Deborah Hill. You are listening to a segment in our voice of farming series.

It's August in North Carolina and I'm here with Marlowe Vaughn and her father Bob Ivey at Razorback Farm, a...


Oct 28, 2019

When Americans hear the term national security, I suspect few people would think about food in this context. Our guest, Thomas Bollyky is an ideal person to explain why this may be a glaring oversight.

About Tom Bollyky

Thomas Bollyky is director of the global health program and senior fellow for global health,...


Oct 21, 2019

Today's guest, Dr. Hunt Allcott, had two recent papers with colleagues Benjamin Lockwood and Dmitry Taubinsky, on whether soda taxes are effective, and how an optimal soda tax might be established. They were published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. These are important papers and an important time,...