Jasmine Crowe: What we're getting wrong in the fight to end hunger
賈絲敏 · 克洛: 我們在對抗飢餓問題之仗中做錯了什麼?
Jasmine Crowe is the creator of Goodr, a tech-enabled sustainable food waste management company that strives to eliminate hunger and save food from landfills. Full bio
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at a local food pantry
在當地一間食物儲藏所幫忙,
亞特蘭大市南方。
their food supply for the week.
there were about 40 people outside
I enjoy more than giving back.
the volunteer meeting was taking place,
志工開會的房間中,
these people any real meals.
where -- get this --
that the Weight Watchers Ding Dongs
two 20-ounce diet Snapples,
二十盎司的斯納普飲料、
vegetable-enriched macaroni noodles,
且富含蔬菜的通心麵、
on top of a green bean casserole.
最上面的那種東西。
of those bags that day,
stood in line to receive one.
我所做的事情感覺良好?
about the work that I was doing
給超過一百個家庭的那些食物
that not one meal was to come
to over 100 families?
a meal with barbecue sauce and Ding Dongs?
配烤肉醬來做一餐啊?
of this process all my life.
more times than I can count,
已經數不清了,
I've worked in food pantries,
曾經在食物儲藏所工作,
so many of you have, too.
a pop-up restaurant,
一間臨時快閃餐廳,
experiencing homelessness
for quite some time.
很長一段時間了。
as a beloved community institution.
受愛戴的社區機構。
on a weekly basis
and make boxes of food for the needy.
做出一盒一盒的食物。
and office buildings that participate
學校及辦公大樓的心,
and food pantries across the nation.
和食物儲藏所架上都補滿食物。
and pantries on a monthly basis
食物銀行和食物儲藏所
with a healthy meal.
供應他們健康的餐。
from making real progress.
做出真正的進展。
on how many people are food insecure.
告訴大家有多少人要為食物苦惱。
of our biggest celebrities in the fight.
experience hunger every single year,
than ever before --
卻比以前更嚴重——
超過八百億磅的食物。
has more than doubled
食物浪費至少增加了一倍,
of everything in our landfills.
有 27% 是浪費的食物。
it gradually rots
to global climate change.
with producing this now-wasted food
with all of the above.
卻無法得到食物的人,
need food and can't get it
and simply throw it away.
而把食物丟棄的人之間。
that hunger was not an issue of scarcity
飢餓並不是食物不足的問題,
to end hunger using technology.
開始用科技來終結飢餓。
had begun to explode on the scene,
開始大量出現,
reverse-engineer this technology
like restaurants and grocery stores
that a business sells
to donate this excess food
at the end of the night.
is click on an item,
就是點選一項物品,
the weight and the tax value
in the shared economy
當地的共享經濟駕駛,
and delivered directly to the doors
and people in need.
food waste at the source
that they waste repeatedly
the world's busiest airport,
包括世界上最繁忙的機場,
亞特蘭大國際機場,
with brands and corporations
to work with the NFL for Super Bowl LIII.
在第五十三屆超級盃合作。
we've worked with over 200 business
和超過兩百間企業合作,
of edible food from landfills
送去垃圾掩埋場的可食用食物
that needed it most.
for about 1.7 million meals
大概是一百七十萬份餐,
our efforts to other cities,
拓展到其他城市,
Miami, Philadelphia and more.
邁阿密、費城等等。
that actually tackles the problem.
of our pop-up grocery stores.
我們的快閃雜貨店。
right in the middle of food deserts.
免費的社區雜貨店。
families to leave with recipe cards.
讓家庭帶著食譜卡離開。
and allow them to simply shop
and work to solve hunger in this country,
對於解決飢餓問題的想法和做法,
that we can solve hunger,
and ending hunger.
and the thought process
未使用之食物的國家。
from throwing away unused food.
沒有做到還會受罰。
反食物浪費禁令的歐洲國家。
as it was passed through legislation:
他們用很簡單的方式陳述:
of good food going to waste,
that are going hungry."
food waste grocery store.
法定的過剩食物雜貨店。
from local grocery stores
取得過剩的食物,
a 50 percent off discount.
and donate it to emergency aid programs
捐給緊急救助計畫
for the people in need.
給有需要的人。
"the Goodwill of grocery."
pay-what-you-can grocery store,
「能付多少就付多少」雜貨店,
Feed it Forward。
by recovering excess food
to simply pay what they can
只需支付他們付得起的錢。
of changing the attitudes
innovation and technology
和科技改變我們的生活,
solved hunger yet.
還沒有解決飢餓問題。
that can drive themselves
that cannot feed themselves.
to end food insecurity,
所捐贈的金額已有數百萬美元,
就解決飢餓問題了。
escape this vicious cycle?
無法脫離這個惡性循環?
and pitching the idea,
in true seriousness,
to go to bed hungry that very night,
那晚要餓著肚子入睡,
飢餓問題已經解決,
that hunger is being solved,
the way we've been doing it.
garner the same results.
entrepreneurs all over the world.
大問題上,如飢餓問題,
really big problems, like hunger,
organizations and food banks.
及食物銀行的那種支援。
可以解決這個問題。
what hunger looks like in America
飢餓問題是什麼樣子的,
giving people access to food
with city council members
indeed does have the power
和有需要的人做連結,
what a meal can actually mean to a family.
一餐有什麼樣的意義。
and school districts
讓飢餓的孩子有東西吃,
分享這個訊息:
we can solve so many more problems.
我們還能解決更多其他問題。
還浪費完好食物的國家,
our minds and our actions.
改變我們的想法和行動。
do not solve hunger.
無法解決飢餓問題。
about connecting the dots
把我們眼前的各點連起來,
vegetable-enriched macaroni noodles
且富含蔬菜的通心麵
give them back their dignity.
他們的尊嚴還給他們。
school attendance in schools.
outcomes for millions.
food waste in our landfills,
被送去垃圾掩埋場的食物浪費,
environment for all of us.
we can feel good about it in the process.
在這個過程中的感覺很好。
and everything to gain.
卻可以得到很多。
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jasmine Crowe - Hunger heroJasmine Crowe is the creator of Goodr, a tech-enabled sustainable food waste management company that strives to eliminate hunger and save food from landfills.
Why you should listen
Jasmine Crowe is working to make the world a better place by reducing food waste and ending hunger. She has hosted events in more than 20 US cities and in the UK, South Africa and Haiti. She has collected and donated more than two million food items to causes worldwide and fed more than 80,000 people through the Sunday Soul Homeless feeding initiative.
Through her years of work feeding vulnerable populations, Crowe saw a great opportunity for technology to solve a real problem: hunger. In January 2017, Crowe founded Goodr, a food management platform that allows users in the food industry to track and redirect surplus food. Under Jasmine's direction, Goodr has now diverted nearly two million pounds of food from landfills and serves clients including Atlanta's Hartsfield Jackson Airport, the NFL and Netflix.
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