In a recent IFT compensation and career study, 41% of respondents said that seeking more supportive management was their reason for leaving an organization. 62% said that higher salary was their main reason to move to a new organization.  While in the last year compensation has soared, it is just one of the many ways organizations have worked to retain talent. We’ve convened this podcast to discuss employee engagement, DEI, talent retention, affinity groups for employees/business resource groups, and what Ingredion is doing to not just keep top talent but enrich the lives of their employe ..read more

Join us to celebrate the Global Food System Challenge Growth Grant Winners.  Representatives from Food Systems for the Future (FSF Institute), iDE Global, and the African Center for Technology Studies discuss their work and the role that the generous funding from Seeding The Future Foundation plays in helping to make healthier diets more accessible and empowers consumers to make choices benefitting both personal and planetary health.  ..read more

Join us to celebrate the Global Food System Challenge Grand Prize Winners.  Representatives from the International Rice Research Institute, Solar Freeze, and WorldFish discuss their work and the role that the generous funding from Seeding The Future Foundation plays in helping to make healthier diets more accessible and empowers consumers to make choices benefitting both personal and planetary health.  ..read more

Since 2017, IFT’s Global Food Traceability Center has worked with the World Wildlife Fund to advance a unified framework by convening seafood companies and other relevant stakeholders as part of the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability. We’ve convened this podcast to discuss the latest in traceability, particularly in the seafood industry ..read more

This year, the Seeding the Future Foundation is funding the first annual Seeding the Future Global Food System Challenge, which aims to inspire and support passionate, diverse and multidisciplinary teams to create game-changing innovations that will help transform the food system to be more sustainable, make healthier diets more accessible, and empower consumers to make choices benefitting both, personal and planetary health. The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) is proud to officially launch the Challenge, and applications will open on June 7 ..read more

In this podcast, we discuss food safety culture, including how food safety culture is established, measured, and how they are expected to change in light of ongoing advancements in food science and policy. Our guests include Hugo Gutierrez, Global Food Safety and Quality Officer for Kerry, and Bob Gravani, Professor Emeritus of Food Science and Director Emeritus of the National Good Agricultural Practices (GAPs) Program at Cornell University ..read more

With more and more people focusing on their health these days, it’s no surprise that consumers are looking to spice up their culinary selections. But long before they became a part of our creative recipes, herbs and spices have had a long history of being celebrated for their medicinal properties, well before culinary use! Modern science has now shown that many of them carry remarkable health benefits offering great opportunities for new product development and innovation. In this episode we’ll explore and expand on findings shared in the recent IFT Food Technology magazine article e ..read more

Today’s discussion includes Dr. William Moseley, a DeWitt Wallace Professor of geography and director of the Food, Agriculture & Society Program at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Dr. Barbara Burlingame, a professor of Nutrition and Food Systems at Massey University’s College of Health. Both Dr. Moseley and Dr. Burlingame are members of the Steering Committee for the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) on food security and nutrition. They contributed to the FAO ‘s High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition’s 15th Report, “Food Security and Nutrition: Buildin ..read more

Today’s podcast features Kelly Hensel, IFT’s senior digital editor, and John Ruff, IFT’s Chief Science and Technology Officer. We’ll be discussing a few of the major trends that both Food Technology Magazine’s editorial team as well as IFT’s Science, Policy, and Innovation team expect to play a major role in 2021. Tags: IFTNEXT, podcast, food business trends, consumer and marketplace trends ..read more

Today’s podcast is just in time for New Year’s resolutions because we’ll be talking about the upcoming 2020-2025 dietary guidelines for Americans. While the new guidelines are expected to be announced by the end of the year, we’re joined today by Barbara Schneeman, PhD, Professor Emerita at UC Davis and Richard Mattes, PhD, Distinguished Professor at Purdue University, to discuss the recommendations that were made. Schneeman served as chair of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, and Mattes was a member of the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, specifically the Beverag ..read more