In this podcast, Janet Poppendieck, Senior Faculty Fellow, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, Professor Emerita, Hunter College, and author of Sweet Charity, Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement (Penguin Books, 1998), talks about the the role of charitable efforts — places such as food banks, soup kitchens and food pantries — to address food access during the COVID-19 pandemic. The podcast is part of Duke University’s World Food Policy Center podcasts “The Leading Voices in Food” and the Center’s series focused on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our food system. Listen to the podcast here or directly at the link below.

By Janet Poppendieck, Senior Faculty Fellow, CUNY Urban Food Policy Institute, Professor Emerita, Hunter College