Lu Zhi
Do Chinese attitudes to wildlife matter?
As ever more of the Chinese population becomes better off, explains Dr Zhi, the impact of their buying choices becomes more significant. Unless attitudes towards eating certain…
Recorded: 24 January 2008
Eric Schlosser
What’s wrong with industrial agriculture?
Eric Schlosser highlights the damage caused by decades of intensive food production. Schlosser believes that industrialized agriculture carries serious costs in both animal and…
Recorded: 28 October 2006
Eric Schlosser
What’s wrong with conventional agriculture?
Eric Schlosser believes that industrialized food systems are far too reliant on fossil fuels. Our food is dependent on oil both in its production and in its transportation to market.…
Recorded: 28 October 2006
Eric Schlosser
What would a healthy food system look like?
Eric Schlosser says that while his work hasn’t turned him into a vegetarian, it has made him more aware of the provenance of the meat and dairy he consumes. He believes that a…
Recorded: 28 October 2006
Mohau Pheko
How can we have a fair global agricultural system?
Pheko believes that farm subsidies distort prices on world food markets and perpetuate domestic cronyism. She believes that the present arrangements favour multinational corporations…
Recorded: 10 September 2006
Tewolde Egziabher
How can Africa’s food crisis be solved?
Tewolde Egziabher notes that globalization and Africa’s colonial legacy brought with them a taste for non-traditional, imported foods. The current trade agreements that allow…
Recorded: 22 May 2006
Tewolde Egziabher
What can we learn from traditional agricultural methods?
Tewolde Egziabher observes that traditional agricultural methods are organic, using nature’s own forces of renewal. Organic food production is desirable both in terms of increasing…
Recorded: 22 May 2006
Lester Brown
What is the future for World food supplies? (Part One)
In this two-part series Lester Brown looks at two environmental trends, aquifer depletion and rising temperatures. He focuses primarily on the long-term implications these have…
Recorded: 1 December 2004
Lester Brown
What is the future for World food supplies? (Part 2)
In this two-part series Lester Brown looks at two environmental trends, aquifer depletion and rising temperatures. He focuses primarily on the long-term implications these have…
Recorded: 1 December 2004
HRH Prince of Wales
What is the future of food? (part 1)
The Prince of Wales gave this closing speech at the Terra Madre conference in Turin, Italy. The conference, held in October 2004, brought together 5,000 small scale food producers…
Recorded: 23 October 2004
HRH Prince of Wales
What is the future of food? (part 2)
The Prince of Wales gave this closing speech at the Terra Madre conference in Turin, Italy. The conference, held in October 2004, brought together 5,000 small scale food producers…
Recorded: 23 October 2004
Vandana Shiva
Why does biodiversity loss matter?
Dr. Shiva talks about the damaging ecological effects of agricultural monoculture – the large-scale production of single crops. She goes on to warn that the loss of biodiversity…
Recorded: 12 September 2004
