FAO

"Are there any other solutions that we may be missing and which we should be looking at to make supply chains more sustainable? There are two. First, we should be looking at different ownership and finance models. We should explore worker and producer equity models as ways to help the transition to a more sustainable food system that poses less risk for both producers and buyers. Second, Codex Alimentarius took health and safety standards for globally traded food out of the hands of thousands of certification programmes nearly 60 years ago. Could a Codex Planetarius, run by the FAO, ensure a set of six to eight environmental performance standards for globally traded commodities?"

"According to Ruben’s unpublished memoirs, there was only one man within the FAO whom he “would dare entrust with a significant and complicated matter: a Polish communist named H A Jasiorowski who was a professor of genetics. He was a man of the same caliber as Kurien and the only one within the FAO who understood what execution meant. Within the organization, there were many talented people, but their talent and experience were not in the field of execution but in formulating. They could write. After a meeting, one often got exquisite minutes, really skillfully written, but then nothing more.” That it was not their task to execute anything never occurred to Ruben."