#008 - Resilient foods to feed humanity in disasters with Juan García Martínez

Juan is a chemical engineer and the Research Manager at the Alliance to Feed Earth in Disasters (ALLFED).

In this episode we discuss

• Resilient foods — what are they and why might we need them?
• Single-cell proteins
• Short-term uses for resilient foods
• Government catastrophic risk preparedness
• Translating engineering research into policy communications
• Engineering technologies that ALLFED works on
• Challenges of running a volunteering program

Full show notes: http://engineeredforimpact.show/juan
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/g6ccCW1lr50

Timestamps

(00:00:07) Intro

(00:01:23) Juan's intro

(00:02:26) Juan's journey

(00:07:18) Resilient foods

(00:15:47) Technologies for creating resilient foods

(00:19:05) Single-cell proteins

(00:27:38) Short-term vs long-term uses of resilient foods

(00:30:28) Paper mills for sugar production

(00:36:44) Government preparedness

(00:44:11) Difference between English and Spanish speaking countries

(00:45:45) Gold standard for government preparedness

(00:46:32) Engineering work at ALLFED

(00:51:33) ALLFED's volunteering program

(00:59:27) Advice for engineers

(01:04:14) Hope for the future

(01:08:34) PhD research with ALLFED

(01:10:05) Resources to learn more

(01:11:47) What do you wish you had invented?

(01:13:30) Learn more about Juan

(01:14:14) Outro