045 - Bare Shelves: Is the Food System Threatened by COVID-19?
Bare shelves in grocery stores feed pandemic anxiety but Roni Neff, an expert on food systems and public health at the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, says this is not the biggest concern. Neff talks to Stephanie Desmon about how our robust food industry depends largely upon keeping its workers safe and well, how a pandemic completely shifts the model of emergency food access, and what’s being done to address these unique challenges to ensure everyone is fed.
Learn more about CLF's COVID-19 response: https://clf.jhsph.edu/projects/clf-and-food-systems-response-covid-19
(This episode was recorded on March 30, 2020)