Welcome to the The Food Professor, episode No. 6 - I’m Michael LeBlanc along with Sylvain Charlebois!Channeling Cher:If I could turn back time: the Titans of Canadian grocery testify aka how do I get my two hours back?Voila at my doorstep - the debrief - great experience unpacked!Tackling Food insecurity with innovation:  Can I sell you a cucumber greenhouse in New Brunswick?  Is there a path now for innovation in growing fresh food in Canada at scale?  Greenhouses?  Vertical Greenhouses?  Sobeys is growing fresh right in the store... (https://progressivegrocer.com/sobeys-safeway-thrifty-foods-adding-store-hydroponic-farms)  and Vertical Farming/home gardens: https://www.technologynetworks.com/applied-sciences/news/vertical-farming-could-help-agriculture-meet-food-supply-needs-337416#.Xw8Ig-J2_No.twitterPandemic Pantry: Did COVID-19 save the centre of the aisle, and one thing in the kitchen you can't live without?Our very Special Guest: Solange Ackrill https://www.linkedin.com/in/solangeackrill/Vouchers for Restaurants: clever strategy or good money after bad?Feeling Boxed In?  Is Box'd a solution to restaurant COVID-19 economics? https://torontolife.com/food/paramount-mohamad-fakih-on-boxd-canadas-first-fully-automated-restaurant-automat/Something about your latest research is bugging me...when you asked people is all your hear is crickets...London launches huge cricket farm...research tells us up to 20% would be open to eating bug protein!!Sneak Peek: The great urban shift and grocers/restaurants....the shot glass half full - it make our cities younger and more affordable... retailers and grocers.think differently about what you offer?  Stay tuned for the numbers next episode!!If you liked what you heard you can subscribe on Apple iTunes , Spotify or your favourite podcast platform, please rate and review, and be sure and recommend to a friend or colleague in the grocery, foodservice,  or restaurant industry.    I’m Michael LeBlanc, producer and host of The Voice of Retail podcast and a bunch of other stuff, and I’m Sylvain Charlebois,Stay Safe everyone!!
About UsDr. Sylvain Charlebois is a Professor in food distribution and policy in the Faculties of Management and Agriculture at Dalhousie University in Halifax. He is also the Senior Director of the Agri-food Analytics Lab, also located at Dalhousie University. Before joining Dalhousie, he was affiliated with the University of Guelph’s Arrell Food Institute, which he co-founded. Known as “The Food Professor”, his current research interest lies in the broad area of food distribution, security and safety. Google Scholar ranks him as one of the world's most cited scholars in food supply chain management, food value chains and traceability.He has authored five books on global food systems, his most recent one published in 2017 by Wiley-Blackwell entitled “Food Safety, Risk Intelligence and Benchmarking”. He has also published over 500 peer-reviewed journal articles in several academic publications. Furthermore, his research has been featured in several newspapers and media groups, including The Lancet, The Economist, the New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, BBC, NBC, ABC, Fox News, Foreign Affairs, the Globe & Mail, the National Post and the Toronto Star.Dr. Charlebois sits on a few company boards, and supports many organizations as a special advisor, including some publicly traded companies. Charlebois is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Business Scientific Institute, based in Luxemburg. Dr. Charlebois is a member of the Global Food Traceability Centre’s Advisory Board based in Washington DC, and a member of the National Scientific Committee of the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) in Ottawa.About MichaelMichael is the Founder & President of M.E. LeBlanc & Company Inc. and a Senior Advisor to Retail Council of Canada and the Bank of Canada as part of his advisory and consulting practice. He brings 25+ years of brand/ret