Wayne’s new book is here!! Wayne Roberts has been hard at work updating his 2008 publication “The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food” To get your copy of the book please visit this site! “Couldn’t be more timely, especially given the great deal of rubbish being served to a public hungry for answers about their food … a powerful book.” — Raj Patel,…
UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization Calls Food and Hunger a “Crisis Within a Crisis” of COVID-19 Food often suffers from the problem that it can’t get no respect as a public policy issue. But the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization has been quick off the mark to produce a flurry of food-related briefings reminding people that food policy must stay front…
Toronto and its city region – known as the Greater Golden Horseshoe – is the most populous area in Canada, with nine million inhabitants. As in much of the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has devastated the economy, leading to spiralling unemployment, increased food insecurity, and questions about what changes to the food system are called for. Ontario has been in…
Low-input sustainable agriculture is helping farmers store carbon underfoot Like everybody else, farmers talk a lot about the weather without doing much of anything about it – likely because there’s not much they can do. But after a decade of wild swings in weather patterns, crop prices and farm debt levels, some Canadian farmers are starting to look at ways…
Thanks for joining me. We’re all in a situation we didn’t expect to be in at this time, and I hope I can be of help as you try to steer your food-based organizations or companies to their highest use. As always, food is the object, but people and all the other species who share Earth with us are the subjects.…
It’s too early for precise answers to questions about the coronavirus pandemic’s long-term impacts on the ways food is produced, processed, distributed, eaten, recycled and appreciated. But my experience managing food policy issues in Toronto for one of the world’s leading city-based public health departments gives me some searching questions that can help us prepare for possible outcomes. These open…
Can food tweets go viral amidst COVID-19? #coronavirus has been teaching us what viral means in terms of a scary communicable disease, not just the communicable media scene we’ve grown comfortable with. But a hyper-modern pandemic requires hyper-modern communications. The Twitterverse has come through the #COVID-19, #CoronaVirusUpdates experience with flying colours — providing a communications universe where health experts have unfiltered access to inform…
Will Work For Food Policy NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 12 Wayne’s Food Hacks: LinkedIn for Food-for-Thought Leadership I am connected with 9,433 people on LinkedIn. I post daily on the LinkedIn bulletin board and on several user groups I manage for food enthusiasts. But I can’t help feeling like a loner on LinkedIn. Few people post about food issues or organizations,…
Will Work For Food Policy NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 11 Wayne’s Food Hacks: It’s a Shark Tank out there; How to Pitch Good Food Thanks for opening my newsletter. Phew, I passed the first test! Now I have to get you to stay. Time to make my pitch – which, as it turns out, is the subject matter of this newsletter.…
Will Work For Food Policy NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 9 Wayne’s Food Hacks: 8 Ways to Get Your Email Opened Thanks for opening my 10th newsletter. This week, I’ll coach you on the how-to, strategies, and principles behind subject lines that get your emails opened. Crafting an email subject line might seem mundane. But it’s typical of the skillful tricks of…
Will Work For Food Policy NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 9 Wayne’s Weekly Hacks: Developing People-Centered Food Policy Happy New Year, and thanks for opening my 9th skills-building newsletter. If you give me five minutes, I guarantee you at least one New Year’s Resolution on a skill you can use to double your influence during one of multiple holiday occasions this coming…