The Essential Podcast, Episode 19 : Getting Local - Rethinking Food Supply Chains for Greater Resilience

About this Episode

Bowery Farming CEO Irving Fain, Five Acre Farms CEO Dan Horan, and S&P Global Market Intelligence reporter Alex Bitter join the Essential Podcast to talk about food supply chains and the challenges of getting food to market during a pandemic.

The Essential Podcast from S&P Global is dedicated to sharing essential intelligence with those working in and affected by financial markets. Host Nathan Hunt focuses on those issues of immediate importance to global financial markets – macroeconomic trends, the credit cycle, climate risk, energy transition, and global trade – in interviews with subject matter experts from around the world.

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Show Notes

• Listen to our previous Essential Podcast episode on food supply chains, the restaurant industry, and the damage wrought by a global pandemic with Alex Bitter.

• Read our special report on how COVID-19 is impacting food supply chains to learn more about how the pandemic and the economic shutdown are revealing systemic weaknesses in the supply chains, pointing the way towards trouble ahead despite initial assurances by authorities that food supply chains would remain robust during the outbreak.