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Down-to-earth, easy-to-follow, genuine dialogues about the food on our plates and its impact on people and the planet. Conversations with individuals working closely with food and sustainabi...
To mark 50 episodes on the podcast, I share my own evolving thoughts on food. I reflect on the state of agriculture and on what sustainabili...
Guilt and shame are deeply present in our relationship with food. How do we harness these emotions for good? When it comes to eating animals...
From its more humble origins to its modern-day status as a dominant yet destructive wonderbean, the story of soy concerns us all. Soy is muc...
The EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has become Europe's problem child. Vested interests behind one of the Union's oldest policies threat...
What is the future of protein, and of animal agriculture? Can we raise animals sustainably or should we move beyond meat? To feed a growing...
Everything begins with a seed. Seeds are both a story of loss and a story of hope in our food system. On the one hand, we are rapidly losing...
2019 was the year of climate strikes. Animal rights activists, emboldened by a new wave of mass civil disobedience, are determined to end in...
To transcend infighting in the food movement, finding our common ground is as important as targeting our common enemy . The food movement is...
The continued expansion of industrial-scale chemical-intensive agriculture around the world relies on one central powerful myth: only indust...
We are on the cusp of a post-antibiotic era. The golden age of miracle drugs may be coming to an end. To understand why, award-winning autho...
Four grain trading giants - collectively known as the ABCDs - dominate international grain trade in our global food system. Knowing who they...
The global fertiliser market is a $200 billion industry. But who does it serve? Produced in large-scale, centralised facilities in developed...
When we stop treating dirt like dirt, when we accept it's neither 'dirt cheap' nor 'dirt poor', we will come to realise it is the most preci...
The end of Capitalism is nigh. Or we should certainly hope so. Raj Patel makes a convincing case for the urgent need to think beyond capital...
Monsanto has been found guilty in the world's first-ever court case over claims its Roundup herbicide causes cancer. It faces thousands of s...
Are you a Wizard or a Prophet? Two largely forgotten 20th century thinkers – Norman Borlaug and William Vogt – continue to shape our competi...
What role can livestock play in a sustainable food system? In Meat: A Benign Extravagance, Simon Fairlie lays out a convincing case as to wh...
The urban-rural divide is more pronounced than ever. The 'last acceptable prejudice' - that against rural people and places - is not only re...
In this episode, we talk to Patrick Holden about the hopes and fears of British farming after Brexit. Patrick is a pioneer of the modern sus...
Shifting mindsets at the grassroots level lies at the heart of The Art of Living 's approach to sustainable agriculture. An epidemic of farm...
Restaurants around the world are taking action against Climate Change by going carbon neutral. A new generation of chefs – the modern-day am...
Farm subsidies are central to agricultural policy. But do farmers need them? In this episode, we discuss the ins and outs of the EU Common A...
Is chocolate going 'extinct'? Are we heading towards a 'world without chocolate'? In this episode, we explore what lies behind these recent...
Over the past decade, Monsanto has become a pop cultural bogeyman. Surrounded by controversy, cover-ups, and conspiracies, the agricultural...
This week, we talk with Natalie Pukasemvarangkoon about the Paleo diet. Natalie has experimented with pretty much every diet in the book. Sh...
In the Age of People, the plow was, and remains, one of the most destructive inventions. In his new book Growing A Revolution , award-winnin...
As the 23rd Conference of the Parties (COP23) comes to a close in Bonn, Switzerland, where do we stand on our climate commitments? What issu...
This year for Thanksgiving, Americans will consume 46 million turkeys. Factory farming has never been more 'efficient'. This same year, the...
In this episode, I talk about my beef with Veganism. I explain why, after a 30-day vegan challenge, I remain a sceptical vegetarian. I talk...
Like the combustion engine, the telephone, and the Internet before it, blockchain has the potential to transform how human society functions...
Since 2015, more than 150 cities around the globe have come together to rethink the way we feed our cities. As signatories to the Milan Urba...
Rob Greenfield is an adventurist and environmental activist that has made it his life's purpose to lead by example in living a truly sustain...
As cities and populations grow, and the space to feed them shrinks, one proposed solution is to farm upwards rather than outwards, indoors i...
In this week's special episode, I had the honour of speaking with Dr. Cary Fowler , the "father" of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Cary has...
From 10-dollar plant-based smoothies in trendy Californian cafés to Vegan helmets in the Israeli Defense Force, Veganism is as diverse as it...
Feeding future generations simply won't work without addressing the food we get from our oceans. Oceans serve as our main source of animal p...
Have the crops of today bent us to their will? Is corn king? Does our agricultural system still make sense, and can it in its current form c...
A.k.a. Lab-grown meat or in vitro meat, there is a lot of hype surrounding cultured meat today. I talk with Erin Kim , Communications Direct...
Humans have been producing food using the same paradigm for 10,000 years. But the burden of a growing population and the impacts of an indus...
This week, I discuss my thoughts on tackling food waste together with Merit 360 . Merit 360 is a year-long World merit program bringing 360...
Are 'GMOs' good or bad? Are they safe to eat? Are they symbolic of what is wrong with our food system? According to plant geneticist Pamela...
This week, we discuss the exciting world of edible insects with Robert Nathan Allen (RNA) from Little Herds . Little Herds is an educational...
This week, I talk with Dr. Dennis vanEngelsdorp, assistant professor of entomology at the University of Maryland in the United States, and p...
This week I talk with Iemke Postma. A young entrepreneur in food sustainability, Iemke has set up organisations and businesses in permacultu...
This week – as part of the new Learn by Doing initiative – I took on J.B. Mackinnon's 100-mile diet challenge. James Mackinnon was last week...
This week, I talk to Canadian best-selling author James Mackinnon about eating local and the local food movement. James has won more than a...
#Ourfield: Forty people on a one-year journey of co-farming a field of heritage grains, with a British farmer called John. Future Farm Lab's...
Taxing food with high carbon emissions seems like a rational, reasonable, and feasible step that governments should take. It seems like the...
I chat with Mark Pershin - CEO of Less Meat Less Heat - about how a Climatarian diet can reduce your carbon footprint and combat climate cha...
So why am I launching a podcast about food and sustainability? Glad you asked. I think we need more down-to-earth, genuine dialogues about t...