Jennifer Molidor leads sustainable food campaigns for the Center for Biological Diversity, a national/international conservation organization with nearly 2 million members and supporters. Her work covers food production, procurement, policy, consumption, diet-climate links, agriculture, farming, plant-based foods, meat reduction, food waste, climate change, biodiversity loss, extinction crisis, school food, grocery stores, restaurants, catering, livestock grazing, and impacts on wildlife, watersheds and ecosystems. She writes reports, conducts research, designs and organizes campaigns, speaks for events and conferences. Molidor hold a Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame. Advocacy works have been published in USA Today, the Guardian, and her reports cited on NPR, Washington Post, and beyond.
Sub-specialities:
I am published especially in food waste (grocery industry and household), cattle grazing and beef production, regenerative agriculture and sustainable food production, event and catering (carbon emissions and calculations), livestock impacts and climate change, agriculture and biodiversity/nature. My strengths also include cross-sector issues: sustainability, environmental impacts, food justice, sovereignty, school food, labor, animal welfare, nutrition and human health. I have also written on breastfeeding, formula and dairy production.
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Smashing Eggs, Dumping Milk: Farmers Waste More Food Than Ever
Bloomberg [2020] -
No, Regenerative Ranching is Not Good for Grassland Birds
Mongabay [2020] -
Magical Cows and the Colonization of Western Public Lands
Salt Lake Tribune [2020] -
5 Ways USDA's School Programs Fail "Start Simple"
Food Dive [2019] -
Grocery Stores Get Mostly Mediocre Scores On Their Food Waste Efforts
NPR [2018] -
When It Comes to Food Waste Shoppers Aren't the Only Ones to Blame
Food Tank [2018] -
“Habitat-fed Food: Grass-fed Beef and Sustainable Solutions.”
Biodiversity [2017] -
“We Can Address Food Waste at Home First.”
USA Today [2017] -
How to Feed the World While Curbing Our Appetite or Destruction
The Guardian [2017] -
Wild California in the Trump Administration
KCET.org [2017]