{"id":7489,"date":"2022-12-13T13:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T18:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/?p=7489"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:33:16","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T14:33:16","slug":"salvador2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/2022-event\/salvador2022\/","title":{"rendered":"The 21st Century Food System We Deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ricardo Salvado<\/h2>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7491\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7491\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7491\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-2048x1363.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-364x242.jpg 364w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-1000x665.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-1280x852.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-2000x1331.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/935\/Salvador-1-scaled.jpg 2560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7491\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ricardo Salvador<br \/>professional, 2012<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ricardo Salvador is the senior scientist and director of the Food &amp; Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS). He has over four decades of experience working with citizens, scientists, economists, and politicians to transition our current food system into one that grows healthy foods while employing sustainable and socially equitable practices. Before coming to UCS, Dr. Salvador served as a program officer for Food, Health, and Wellbeing with the W.K. Kellogg Foundation. In this capacity, he was responsible for conceptualizing and managing the Foundation\u2019s food systems <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">programs that addressed the connections between food and health, environment, economic development, sovereignty, and social justice. Dr. Salvador earned his undergraduate degree in agricultural science from New Mexico State University and holds an M. S. and Ph. D. in crop production and physiology from Iowa State University (ISU). He was an associate professor of agronomy at ISU where he taught the first course in sustainable agriculture at a Land Grant University.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ricardo Salvador <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/VCHwfd2fS6c\"> Watch Video <\/a><\/strong><br \/>December 13, 2022 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1667,"featured_media":7491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2022-event"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7528,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7489\/revisions\/7528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/hc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}